Section: Other Grants and Activities

National Grants

• ARA SSIA FormaCrypt—Formal proofs and probabilistic semantics in cryptography , duration: 3 years, started in January 2006. The verification of cryptographic protocols is a very active research area. Most works on this topic use either the computational approach, in which messages are bitstrings, or the formal approach, in which messages are terms. The computational approach is more realistic but more difficult to automate. The FormaCrypt project aims at bringing together these orthogonal approaches in order to get the best of the two worlds. Partners are: Liens (coordinator), project-team SECSI - LSV, Cachan.

• ARA SSIA ARROWS—Safe Pointer-Based Data Structures: A Declarative Approach to their Specification and Analysis , duration: 3 years, started in autumn 2005. The goal of this project is to develop new specification languages for programs manipulating pointers which are sufficiently precise to express many interesting properties and, at the same time, support automatic analyses. Partners are: CAPP-LEIBNIZ Grenoble (coordinator), LILaC-Irit Toulouse. The local coordinator is S. Ranise.

• ARA SETI RAVAJ (http://www.irisa.fr/lande/genet/RAVAJ/index.html )— “Rewriting and Approximations for Java Applications Verification” , duration: 39 months, started on January 2007. The goal of this project is to analyse MIdlets – Java programs designed for mobile devices like cell phones or PDA. In addition to classical proof tools of rewriting, we propose to use approximations of reachable terms. There are three academics partners: INRIA LANDE, INRIA PROTHEO and LIFC/Besançon; and an industrial: France Telecom R&D. The local coordinator is O. Kouchnarenko.

• ANR SESUR AVOTÉ—Formal Analysis of Electronic-Voting protocols , duration: 4 years, started in January 2008. Electronic voting promises the possibility of a convenient, efficient and secure facility for recording and tallying votes. However, the convenience of electronic elections comes with a risk of large-scale fraud. The AVOTÉ project aims at proposing techniques for formally analyzing e-voting protocols. The coordinator of the project is the Cassis team. Partners are: France Telecom Lannion, LSV Cachan, Verimag Grenoble.

• ANR program “Systèmes interactifs et robotique”— Smart Surface , coordinated by AS2M (Automatique et Systèmes Micro-Mécatroniques) department at the FEMTO-ST (Franche-Comté Electronique Mecanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies) institute (UMR 6174). This project started in July 2007 for three years. The CASSIS participant is A. Giorgetti.

• ANR DECERT — Deduction and Certification , coordinated by Th. Jensen (IRISA). This project focuses on the design of decision procedures, in particular for fragments of arithmetic, and their integration into larger verification systems, including skeptical proof assistants. Partners are: IRISA Rennes, LRI Orsay, INRIA Sophia, Systerel and CEA. From INRIA Nancy, MOSEL and CASSIS project-teams are involved. This project will start in January 2009 for three years.

• ANR TASCCC Test Automatic basé sur des Scenarios et Critères Communs – Automated Testing based on Scenarios and Common Criteria , duration: 3 years, starting in Dec. 2009. The project aims at completing the model-based testing process initiated in the POSE project, using scenarios to specify the test cases that have to be generated by model animation. The goal is here to provide an automated mean for generating the scenarios from a given set of properties. The overall objective is to ease the Common Criteria evaluation of secure softwares. Partners: :Gemalto (leader), LIG, LIFC, Supelec, Smartesting, and Serma Technologies.

• FCE Vetess (http://lifc.univ-fcomte.fr/vetess )— We are working with the university of Haute Alsace, SMARTESTING Technologies and PSA Citroen. The project is labelled by "pole de compétitivité Véhicule du Futur" and funded by the "Fonds de Compétitivité des Entreprises", an inter-ministry grant. It aims at verifying embedded systems vehicles by automatic model-based tests generation. The duration of the project is 18 months and started in September 2008.

• Collaborative Research Initiative INRIA, ARC CeProMi “Certification de Programmes manipulant la Mémoire”, coordinated by Claude Marché from the project-team PROVAL. This project started in 2008 for two years. The partners are the project-teams GALLIUM (François Pottier) and PROVAL (Claude Marché), and DCS Team (Marie-Laure Potet, Verimag, Grenoble). The local coordinator is Alain Giorgetti.

• DGA RIE Secure Test project, duration: 18 months, started in February 2009. The project provides a specific environment to verify of cryptographic components (hardware or software) with an Model-Based Testing approach. The method help the test team to evaluation DGA to product a test refential. Partners are: DGA CELAR, Smartesting (coordinator), Telecom Bretagne. The local coordinator is F. Bouquet.