It is known that the most popular public-key cryptosystems used today will become insecure once sufficient strong quantum computers become available. To prepare for information security in the quantum computing era, post-quantum cryptosystems that are resistant to attacks from quantum computers have been built as replacements for the classical ones. Security verification of those post-quantum cryptographic protocols has got extensive attention from cryptography and security research groups in recent years.
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There is a growing interest in applying formal methods in practice to improve software reliability and security, but only with a few exceptions, this interest has not been successfully converted into the reality. How to enable practitioners to use formal techniques easily and effectively still remains challenging.
The Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language (SOFL) has been developed to address this challenge by providing a comprehensible specification language, a practical modeling method, various verification and validation techniques, and tool support through effective integration of formal methods with conventional software engineering techniques. The Modeling, Simulation and Verification Language (MSVL) is a parallel programming language, and its supporting toolkit MSV has been developed to enable us to model, simulate and verify a system in a formal manner.
This workshop aims to continuously promote the development and combinations of the SOFL formal engineering method and the formal method MSVL, as well as the applications of their fundamental principles or specific techniques to developing other formal engineering techniques. We expect to bring industrial, academic and government experts of SOFL and MSVL to communicate and to exchange ideas. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of the interest includes, but not limited to, all the possible issues in relation to SOFL, MSVL, or their applications in both developing other formal engineering techniques and specific software systems.
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