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Visualizing Game-Based Certificates for Hyperproperty Verification

Logic in Computer Science 2025-01-20 v1

Abstract

Hyperproperties relate multiple executions of a system and are commonly used to specify security and information-flow policies. While many verification approaches for hyperproperties exist, providing a convincing certificate that the system satisfies a given property is still a major challenge. In this paper, we propose strategies as a suitable form of certificate for hyperproperties specified in a fragment of the temporal logic HyperLTL. Concretely, we interpret the verification of a HyperLTL property as a game between universal and existential quantification, allowing us to leverage strategies for the existential quantifiers as certificates. We present HyGaViz, a browser-based visualization tool that lets users interactively explore an (automatically synthesized) witness strategy by taking control over universally quantified executions.

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@article{arxiv.2501.10184,
  title  = {Visualizing Game-Based Certificates for Hyperproperty Verification},
  author = {Raven Beutner and Bernd Finkbeiner and Angelina Göbl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.10184},
  year   = {2025}
}

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