We are pleased to announce the open source release of Cryptol version 2.  Bugs in crypto code have been in the news lately – Cryptol helps developers detect (or avoid) correctness errors in cryptographic code. What Cryptol does is reduce the gap between the reference specification of a cryptographic algorithm and an executable version which […]

Heartbleed is the nickname of a dangerous OpenSSL vulnerability that was just announced. A security update was already available before the announcement, and this is definitely a vulnerability where quickly patching makes a big difference. A fast response matters here because malware wasn’t in the wild yet, so many sites likely can prevent any negative consequences […]

Joe Kiniry has recently joined Galois as a Principal Investigator. He was previously an academic in Europe for twelve years, most recently a Full Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He has extensive experience in formal methods, high-assurance software engineering, foundations of computer science and mathematics, and information security. Specific areas that he has […]

As part of DARPA’s Crowd Sourced Formal Verification (CSFV) program, Galois has partnered with game design and development experts voidALPHA to produce a free online formal verification game, StormBound. Formal verification is the most rigorous way to thwart attacks against IT systems and applications upon which military, government, and commercial organizations rely. Traditional formal methods, […]

Portland, Oregon (October 30, 2013) – Rob Wiltbank, Ph.D. has joined Galois as its CEO. Rob is widely recognized as a world expert in angel investing performance and entrepreneurial strategy. In his new role, Rob will drive strategy for Galois’ growth, oversee business operations and development, and help commercialize its technologies. “I’m tremendously pleased to […]

This year’s Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) conference is being held from October 20 – 23 here in Portland, OR. Galois is proud to be one of the sponsors of this annual event – we’re excited to be having it in our own back yard! Dr. Lee Pike is on the program committee, and […]

For those registered to attend MEMOCODE 2013 this week in Portland, OR, Dr. Lee Pike will be presenting the keynote address titled “Building a High-Assurance Unpiloted Air Vehicle” on October 18 at 11:00 a.m. Abstract A drone autopilot is a complex software artifact that includes operating systems, networking, and sensor systems.  With support from DARPA, Galois is […]

As part of DARPA’s High Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS), Galois is building critical flight control software using new software methods for embedded systems programming. Recently, Signal Online reported an overview of the HACMS program. We’ve been working on the HACMS program for about a year and we’d like to share more details about open source work we’ve […]

Galois was awarded a contract through the Office of Naval Research – we’re partnering with SRI to build automated tools for binary analysis and optimization to minimize software bloat and reduce costs and complexity. Read more about the effort here: http://bit.ly/1fG7S45.

We have developed a technique to make sense of change information from a typical software project’s history. The core of our approach is to treat the program text as a tree, to find differences in the tree structure, to group similar differences together, and then finally to extract a pattern that represents each group. Jason […]