Section: New Software and Platforms

ProScript

Participants : Nadim Kobeissi [correspondant] , Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Bruno Blanchet.

Defensive JavaScript (DJS) is a subset of the JavaScript language that guarantees the behaviour of trusted scripts when loaded in an untrusted web page. Code in this subset runs independently of the rest of the JavaScript environment. When propertly wrapped, DJS code can run safely on untrusted pages and keep secrets such as decryption keys. ProScript is a typed subset of JavaScript, inspired by DJS, that is focused on writing verifiable cryptographic protocol implementations. In addition to DJS typing, ProScript imposes a functional style that results in more readable and easily verifiable ProVerif models. ProScript has been used to write and verify a full implementation of the TextSecure protocol in JavaScript.

The ProScript compiler and various libraries written in ProScript will be made available from the Prosecco webpage.