Announcing Zellic's and V12's Work on x86 Binary Formal Verification

Zellic and V12 have shared what they believe to be the first published machine-checked proof covering the end-to-end behavior of a Linux process executing a statically linked 64-bit x86 glibc binary. Targeting the binary level reduces the required trusted base and covers binaries from various compilers or hand-written machine code. The project utilizes frontier AI models guided by human experts in Lean to make proving security properties at this scale efficient and reusable. Open article →