Merge pull request #729 from hacspec/move-book

Move book from `hacspec/book` to `hacspec/hax`

.github/workflows/gh_pages.yml

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-name: Deploy documentation to GH Pages
+name: Deploy to GH Pages
 
 on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
  branches: [main]
 
 jobs:
- build:
+ build-documentation:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v3
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ jobs:
 
  # deploys the result of `build`
  # this job is a copy paste from <https://github.com/actions/deploy-pages>
- deploy:
+ deploy-documentation:
  # Add a dependency to the build job
- needs: build
+ needs: build-documentation
 
  # Grant GITHUB_TOKEN the permissions required to make a Pages deployment
  permissions:
@@ -39,3 +39,74 @@ jobs:
  - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
  id: deployment
  uses: actions/deploy-pages@v2 # or the latest "vX.X.X" version tag for this action
+
+ # Builds and deploy "external" GH pages: pushes to the repos
+ # `hacspec/hacspec.github.io` and `hacspec/book`
+ build-and-deploy-external-gh-pages:
+ runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+ steps:
+ - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+ with:
+ path: hax
+ - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+ with:
+ repository: "hacspec/hacspec.github.io"
+ path: hacspec.github.io
+ token: ${{secrets.PUSH_HACSPEC_GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+ - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+ with:
+ repository: "hacspec/book"
+ path: book
+ token: ${{secrets.PUSH_HACSPEC_GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+
+ - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
+
+ - name: Configure git
+ run: |
+ git config --global user.name "github-actions[bot]"
+ git config --global user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+
+ - name: Patch and push `README.md` in `hacspec.github.io`
+ run: |
+ (
+ README_ORIGINAL="https://github.com/hacspec/hax/blob/main/README.md"
+ echo "<!-- WARNING: a GitHub action periodically replaces this file with ${README_ORIGINAL}. Do not make any modification to this file, instead make a PR to ${README_ORIGINAL} -->"
+ echo ""
+ cat hax/README.md
+ ) > hacspec.github.io/README.md
+ cd hacspec.github.io
+
+ # Replace the `🌐 Website` link to a GitHub link
+ sed -i 's#.*🌐 Website.*# <a href="https://github.com/hacspec/hax">🔗 GitHub</a> |#' README.md
+
+ # Replace relative links to absolute links
+ sed -i 's|(\./|(https://github.com/hacspec/hax/tree/main/|g' README.md
+
+ git add -A
+ if git commit -m "Readme update"; then
+ git push https://$USERNAME:[email protected]/hacspec/hacspec.github.io
+ fi
+
+ - name: Regenerate and push the book
+ run: |
+ nix build ./hax#hax-book -o result-hax-book
+ HAX_COMMIT=$(git -C ./hax rev-parse --short HEAD)
+
+ mkdir hax-book
+ rsync -rq --no-perms --chown=$(id -un):$(id -gn) "$(realpath result-hax-book)/" hax-book
+ mv book/.git hax-book/.git
+ cd hax-book
+
+ {
+ echo "# Warning: this repository only contains generated files"
+ echo "The sources of the book are in https://github.com/hacspec/hax/tree/main/book"
+ echo "Please file issues, and push PRs to https://github.com/hacspec/hax."
+ } > README.md
+
+ git add -A
+ if git commit -m "Book update (generated from hacspec/hax@$HAX_COMMIT)"; then
+ git push https://$USERNAME:[email protected]/hacspec/book
+ fi
+ env:
+ PUSH_HACSPEC_GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.PUSH_HACSPEC_GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+ USERNAME: github-actions[bot]

.github/workflows/test_installs.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
  - ubuntu-latest
  - ubuntu-20.04
  - macos-latest
- - macos-11
+ - macos-12
  runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
  steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v3

book/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+book
+target

book/archive/book.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[book]
+authors = ["Franziskus Kiefer"]
+language = "en"
+multilingual = false
+src = "src"
+title = "hacspec"
+
+[output.html]
+mathjax-support = true

book/archive/src/SUMMARY.md

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Summary
+
+- [Introduction](./readme.md)
+- [The hacspec language](./language/readme.md)
+ - [Syntax](./language/syntax.md)
+ - [Core](./language/core.md)
+ - [Sequences and arrays](./language/seq.md)
+ - [Structs and enums](./language/enums.md)
+ - [Error handling](./language/errors.md)
+- [The hacspec std library](./std/readme.md)
+ - [Arithmetic](./std/arithmetic.md)
+ - [Sequence and array operations](./std/seq.md)
+- [Examples](./examples/readme.md)
+- [Usage](./usage/readme.md)
+ - [Specifications](./usage/specifications.md)
+ - [Verification](./usage/verification.md)
+ - [Test Vectors](./usage/test_vectors.md)
+- [For Developers](./developers/readme.md)
+ - [Working on the compiler](./developers/compiler.md)
+
+---
+[Contributors](misc/contributors.md)

book/archive/src/developers/compiler.md

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+# Working on the compiler
+
+## High-level architecture
+
+![Hacspec compiler architecture](hacspec_architecture.png)
+
+The Rustspec compiler intervenes after the regular Rust typechecking,
+by translating the Rust AST into a stricter hacspec AST,
+yielding error messages if you're not in the subset.
+
+The hacspec AST then undergoes a typechecking phase that replicates the
+formal typechecking judgment of hacspec, before being compiled
+to the proof backends like F* or Coq.
+
+## Code organization
+
+The source code for the compiler is located in the `language/` folder.
+`main.rs` is the file containing the driver for the different compiler
+passes.
+
+### Hacspec AST
+
+The main file of the compiler is `rustspec.rs` and it contains the AST
+structure.
+
+Types are usually enclosed into `Spanned<...>` blocks that attach a location
+information to an AST node, thereby providing a way to display beautiful error
+message.
+
+Several nodes also contain a `Fillable<...>` node standing for information
+that is filled by the typechecking phase but that can be left to `None` when
+building the AST.
+
+### Translation from Rust AST
+
+This phase is contained in `ast_to_rustspec.rs`. The trickyness of this
+translation is that it needs to be aware of certain special names contained
+in the structure `SpecialNames`. Indeed, while the Rust AST treats the application
+enum constructors like function applications, the hacspec AST considers them as
+proper injection so we need to distinguish them in the Rust AST. For that, we
+need to know all declared enums at this point of the program.
+
+Enums and other `SpecialNames` are also defined in the `ExternalData` that
+contains the signatures and types imported in crates used by the hacspec
+program being compiled.
+
+### Name resolution
+
+When the translation from Rust AST is finished, the identifiers for all
+variables inside function bodies are of the following type:
+
+```rust, noplaypen
+pub enum Ident {
+ Unresolved(String),
+ Local(LocalIdent),
+ TopLevel(TopLevelIdent),
+}
+```
+
+More precisely, they are still in the `Ident::Unresolved` case. The compiler
+pass in `name_resolution.rs` resolves the identifiers by linking them to local or global identifiers,
+each one having a unique ID. hacspec does not feature De Bruijn variable
+handling, instead relying on unique fresh IDs for differentiating local
+and global variables from each other.
+
+### External data
+
+A hacspec file can never (in principal) be considered alone, as it usually imports
+at least several other crates like the hacspec standard library. These external
+crates must pre-populate the typechecking context with the types and function
+signatures that they define.
+
+It's the job of `hir_to_rustspec.rs` to retrieve this data. The critical
+piece of code in this file is [the following](https://github.com/hacspec/hacspec/blob/cc609254b0aa978646f494291b9c91a92fe107ee/language/src/hir_to_rustspec.rs#L733-L737):
+
+```rust, noplaypen
+let num_def_ids = crate_store.num_def_ids_untracked(*krate_num);
+let def_ids = (0..num_def_ids).into_iter().map(|id| DefId {
+ krate: *krate_num,
+ index: DefIndex::from_usize(id),
+});
+```
+
+First, we retrieve the number of exported symbols by an external crate using
+`num_def_ids_untracked`, a function that is [specifically labeled](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/85889)
+as critical to the hacspec compiler in the Rust compiler codebase. Then,
+we manufacture definition IDs for all these exported symbols, relying on the
+invariant that they are numbered from 0 to the number of exported symbols
+in Rust's compiled crate metadata format.
+
+Then, we use those definition IDs (`DefId`) to query the Rust compiler
+via the central [`TyCtxt`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_middle/ty/struct.TyCtxt.html)
+data structure. If the `DefId` corresponds to a type definition, we examine the
+type definition structurally and check whether it corresponds to a hacspec-compatible
+type definition. Notably, the type definitions generated by macros like `array!`
+or `nat_mod!` are only seen here in their expanded version, so we have to retro-engineer
+which expanded version corresponds to which macro expansion. This is a vulnerability
+of the compiler since it's possible to break the abstraction of the language
+by smuggling in a type not defined via a hacspec macro this way. That's why hacspec
+developers should be very careful about which dependencies they import in order
+to have a 100% safety guarantee.
+
+For `DefId`s corresponding to functions, the signature of the function is analysed
+and if it fits the subset of types expected by hacspec, the function is imported
+along with its type in a pre-populated typechecking context.
+
+Note that it is not possible any more at this point to retrieve the `#[in_hacspec]`,
+`#[unsafe_hacspec]`, etc. attributes that would tag the external definitions,
+since these attributes get erased by the Rust compiler before reaching the
+compiled crates metadata.
+
+
+### Typechecking
+
+The typechecking is done in `typechecker.rs` and follows a very regular structure,
+making heavy use of immutable data structures to not mess up the various
+context manipulations.
+
+Note that we need to perform a full typechecking complete with method resolution
+because the proof backends need very fine-grained typechecking information
+to generate correct code.
+
+Be careful: types often need to be de-aliased with `dealias_type` before
+being matched on structurally. Forgetting to dealias will lead to bugs with
+type aliases.
+
+### Proof backends
+
+The different proof backends (`rustspec_to_fstar.rs`, etc) all enjoy a similar
+structure that ought to be refactored to showcase their commonality. The backends
+don't use an intermediate AST to generate the code in the proof assistant but
+rather directly print code as string using the [`pretty`](https://crates.io/crates/pretty)
+pretty-printing library. If you want to start a new proof backend, the easiest
+solution is probably to copy an existing proof backend and tweak it until
+you get the right result.
+
+The code generation has to be fine-tuned to interface with a replica of the
+hacspec standard library in the host proof assistant, whose correspondence with
+the original hacspec library in Rust is part of the trusted code base. More specially,
+clever solutions to encode sequences and array, as well as all the different types
+of public and secret machine integers, and the interaction between the two
+(seeing a double as a string of bytes) have to be implemented through proof
+assistant libraries.
+
+## Unit tests
+
+The compiler has various unit tests that are controlled trough the `language/tests`
+files. Please enrich the unit tests bases in `language-tests`,
+`negative-language-tests` and `test-crate` as you implement new features for
+the compiler. The compiler can also be tested against all the hacspec cryptographic
+specifications by running `examples/typecheck_examples.sh` from the root of
+the repository.

book/archive/src/developers/readme.md

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+# For Developers
+
+This section contains a handy guide for hacspec developers working on the
+standard library or the compiler.

book/archive/src/examples/readme.md

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+# Examples
+
+The main [hacspec repository] contains a set of [example specifications].
+In this section we pull out some interesting bits to demonstrate the hacspec
+language.
+
+There's also a provider that bundles the different cryptographic primitives
+into a single library.
+The provider implements the [RustCrypto traits] in order to facilitate interoperability.
+
+[RustCrypto traits]: https://github.com/RustCrypto/traits
+[hacspec repository]: https://github.com/hacspec/hacspec/
+[example specifications]: https://github.com/hacspec/hacspec/tree/master/examples