Shlex is only intended to work for Unix-like shells, and using it on
Windows causes problems. We now resort to simply always using the shell
on Unix-like platforms (as our command input is always a string, and not
an array). On Windows, the string input is always okay, even when not
using the shell.
This is a follow-up to a bug report by M. Kammerer on failing Windows
installs.
Previously, pressing 'cancel' in the verification window would leave a dangling scyther backend process.
Now the process gets correctly killed.
The following changes enable this:
- External processes are no longer invoked through the shell (otherwise they are subprocesses of the shell and cannot be reliably killed cross-platform).
- The 'safeCommand' procedure now has a hook for passing opened Popen objects.
- The GUI stores and kills the Popen objects on cancel or window close.
To do: an alternative interface for this in 'safeCommand' could expose a 'killMe' method through a callback; this might be cleaner in the long term.
For now, some parameters are hardcoded.
In the long term this functionality should be incorporated into the Scyther library directly, as
a method of Claim objects.
Changes:
1. Reverted restricted use of 'hashfunction': 'function' can now be used as an alternative (but they are identical).
2. Functions can be specified to be secret, as we had before.
Together with the newer 'inversekeyfunctions' declaration, this allows for the clean definition of alternative key infrastructures.
Example usage:
secret function sk2;
function pk2;
inversekeyfunctions (sk2,pk2);
Conflicts:
src/compiler.c
Previously, weak agreement and aliveness claims would enforce a requirement for all agents in the range
of the rho of the claim run.
For some three-party protocols this was stronger than needed. We now allow an
optional role name parameter for these claims; if such a parameter is used, the claim
is only evaluated for the agents performing that role.
En passant fixed a potential bug: aliveness and weak agreement require a run for each
agent, but previously we didn't check if these were helper protocols. Clearly they
should not be.
Before, we were using both __file__ as well as sys.argv[0] to determine the base directory
for Scyther, and we were not taking symlinks into account.
By using the inspect module, we can consistently pick the current frame and derive
the file from that, then use realpath to strip symlinks.
The fix requires a significant reworking of the function handling. This
is a first attempt.
Conflicts:
src/knowledge.c
src/knowledge.h
Regression test suggests that the Hashfunction fix works.
There is now a script
src/regression-tests/regression-test.py
that should in the future be the default for running regression tests
instead of the ad-hoc approach we are currently using. The goal is to
ultimately have more reliable and consistent regression testing.
The script takes as input "tests.txt" and tries to perform tests from
that. This is effectively a collection of inputs to the scyther-linux
binary. The results are writting to the 'results' directory, as
test-X.out and test-X.err, where those correspond to stdout and stderr,
respectively. Additionally, a measurement of wall-clock time in seconds
is written to test-X.time.
For now, we are using the timer to ensure all tests terminate. It would
be nicer to use a less environment-dependent way of enforcing
termination.
The use of 'strndup' in scanner.l caused problems for non-gnu modes of gcc, which
was being invoked for the mingw32 compilation. Replaced now by the more portable
strncpy + malloc version.
By specifying:
option "--X=Y";
in the Scyther input file, command-line options can be directly integrated.
For example, one can specify:
option "--one-role-per-agent";
If this variable is unset, Scyther writes into /tmp/Scyther-cache (or similar).
If this variable is set to "", caching is disabled.
Otherwise, Scyther writes into $SCYTHERCACHEDIR/Scyther-cache
The mechanism with the next pointers for tac's was working fine as long as all
tac's were unique by construction. The macro mechanism made it possible for
the same tac to occur twice in the tree. This could lead to an infinite loop.
Now we make explicit copies of the top-level tac. This should fix the problem
caused by the tuple parsing.
A more fundamental solution is to make a deep copy of the substituted terms.
Current wxPython packages only work in 32-bit mode. If we detect that there is
an error message complaining about the architecture, we restart scyther-gui.py using
python in 32-bit mode.
It is now possible to declare syntactic macros at the global level.
macro ID = TERM;
After this definition, every occurrence of ID will be replaced by TERM.
For example, this can be used to avoid duplicating message definitions
among roles:
macro M1 = { nI, I}pk(R) ;
protocol X(I,R) {
role I {
send (I,R, M1);
}
role R {
recv (I,R, M1);
}
}
There is a new event:
not match(t1,t2)
where t1,t2 are terms.
They are implemented by using a special claim that simply stores the
intended inequality. The pruning theorems (prune_theorems.c) ensure that
these terms never become equal. If there are equal, the constraint is
violated. As long as they are not equal, there exists a solution using
groung terms such that their instantiation is not equal.
Currently not very efficient implemented and the graph out output is
also ugly for now.
Conflicts:
gui/Scyther/Trace.py
src/compiler.c
src/scanner.l
Introduced a new event:
match(pattern,groundterm)
This event can only be executed if pattern can be matched to groundterm.
Variable substitutions are persistent with respect to later events in
the same role.
Currently implemented as syntactic sugar, essentially unfolded in role R to:
fresh x;
send ( R,R, { groundterm }x );
recv ( R,R, { pattern }x );
This work is not complete yet in the send that the output still contains
the unfolding. Ideally, the graph rendered detects this syntactic sugar
and renders a simplified event. This should be possible on the basis of
the label name prefix.
Conflicts:
src/compiler.c
src/parser.y
src/scanner.l
src/tac.h
