Practical Experience with an Ada-Based Formal Specification/Language on a Large Project

Ford Aerospace is successfully using an Ada-based formal specification language on a large project to specify and manually verify security properties. This paper, and the associated panel presentation at the 1984 Symposium on Security and Privacy, deal with Customer requirements in the area of security, the use of "Ada Design Language Extensions" (ADLE) as the formal specification language, and the approach to demonstrating security properties.