RVHyper: A Runtime Verification Tool for Temporal Hyperproperties

Bernd Finkbeiner, Christopher Hahn, Marvin Stenger, Leander Tentrup

We present RVHyper, a runtime verification tool for hyperproperties. Hyperproperties, such as non-interference and observational determinism, relate multiple computation traces with each other. Specifications are given as formulas in the temporal logic HyperLTL, which extends linear-time temporal logic (LTL) with trace quantifiers and trace variables. RVHyper processes execution traces sequentially until a violation of the specification is detected. In this case, a counter example, in the form of a set of traces, is returned. As an example application, we show how RVHyper can be used to detect spurious dependencies in hardware designs.

24th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS 2018).

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