Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal
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Google DeepMind研究人员利用智能体AI，对Signal协议的多项关键密码学保障进行了数学形式化验证。该项目以概念验证形式在四周内完成，既为Signal应用、Google Messages和WhatsApp等平台所依赖的加密技术提供了独立验证，也展示了基于AlphaProof Code框架的形式化验证能力。文章指出，AI辅助形式化验证正受到关注
Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI to mathematically prove, or “formally verify,” a number of the Signal protocol’s key cryptographic guarantees—a landmark development for the widely used cryptography and AI itself.
Conducted as a sort of proof-of-concept project in just four weeks, the work is significant in two ways. It serves as further independent validation of the cryptography that protects massive quantities of the world's communications on platforms like the Signal app, Google Messages, and WhatsApp. And it demonstrates Google DeepMind's formal verification capabilities using a new AI framework called AlphaProof Code.
More broadly, AI-aided formal verification is having a moment, but it is unclear how practical it will be for widespread use and how effective it can be at securing large amounts of code. Proponents of formal verification have long referred to it as a sort of holy grail in software security, because it uses math to check and validate that software is functioning as intended—in other words, that it doesn't have critical vulnerabilities.
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