{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/molly-a-verified-compiler-for-cryptoprotocol","title":"Molly: A Verified Compiler for Cryptoprotocol Roles","arxiv_id":"2311.13692","date":"2023-11-22","proceeding":null,"authors":["Daniel J. Dougherty","Joshua D. Guttman"],"abstract":"Molly is a program that compiles cryptographic protocol roles written in a high-level notation into straight-line programs in an intermediate-level imperative language, suitable for implementation in a conventional programming language. We define a denotational semantics for protocol roles based on an axiomatization of the runtime. A notable feature of our approach is that we assume that encryption is randomized. Thus, at the runtime level we treat encryption as a relation rather than a function. Molly is written in Coq, and generates a machine-checked proof that the procedure it constructs is correct with respect to the runtime semantics. Using Coq's extraction mechanism, one can build an efficient functional program for compilation.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13692v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.13692v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"molly-a-verified-compiler-for-cryptoprotocol","repo_url":"https://github.com/dandougherty/molly","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}