Introducing hax 🎂

This has been in the making for a while now. But we are finally happy to announce the first release of hax. It is still early days and we only tagged v0.1. But a ton of work has gone into this release. Wait, what is hax? Let’s start at the beginning. A group of us started hacspec (high assurance crypto specifications), a language for specifying cryptographic primitives as the basis for formal verification, in early 2018 at the HACS workshop. After two iterations on hacspec the project outgrew the name and the initial crypto-oriented scope. ...

October 20, 2023 · 7 min · Franziskus Kiefer & Lucas Franceschino