Cryptol 2.3-alpha couldn't math, but thanks to @yav's hard work, Cryptol 2.3 and
later can math! So with our new found powers comes great simplification. Not
all is perfect, much like Dori-Mic's situation, but things are much better.
See the width constraints in SCrypt.cry for areas that could be improved with
some semi-obvious statements (forall x. 1 + width x >= width (x - 1)).
A new Cryptol user! Alexander Semenov from the Russian Academy of
Sciences is the developer of the Transalg tool, which can also translate
cryptographic algorithms (written in imperative form) into SAT problems.
He recently started experimenting with Cryptol, and wrote up
implementations of several stream ciphers, included in this commit.
The new type signature for popCount is simpler, and more importantly
passes the typechecker. The old one really _ought_ to typecheck, though,
so a shrunken version of it is now in the test suite for #126
The `random` primitive previously took a `[32]` seed, but this causes
inconsistency between 32-bit and 64-bit platforms when the seed is large
enough to wrap around in GHC's representation of an `Int`. This patch
switches to an API that seeds directly with four 64-bit words, and so
should behave the same way on our supported platforms.
I've found that exposing helper types that are only of internal concern to the
function to be bad form. These values should be in where clauses both to help
the type checker not get distracted and to keep the user-facing API as clean as
possible.
This involved:
- Moving a couple REPL modules into the Cryptol library hierarchy (those
that don't depend on console libraries)
- Splitting up the Makefile, which unfortunately resulted in a lot of
not-quite-duplication between the two Makefiles. Let's look into
better abstraction...
This commit brings the notebook into the rest of the distribution
infrastructure set up for cryptol. The main points are:
- new icryptol-kernel executable
- new icryptol shell script that wraps ipython and makes sure the
cryptol profile is set up
- Makefile target for friendly local testing (`make notebook`)
- moved example notebooks to examples subdirectory
