rosenpass/marzipan/TODO.md

TODO for the project of rewriting Marzipan

Done

• figure out why ProVerif is started on the non-processed mpv file
• rework rebound warnings (clean_warnings Bash function)

  rosenpass$ rosenpass-marzipan run-proverif target/proverif/03_identity_hiding_responder.entry.o.pv target/proverif/03_identity_hiding_responder.entry.log
  

• provide log parameter to rosenpass-marzipan-call (no, it was intentionally not used)
• cpp pre-processing stuff
• awk pre-processing stuff
• pretty_output Bash function
  • pretty_output_line
  • click function intervention weirdness
  • why is everything red in the pretty output? (see line 96 in __init__.py)
  • awk RESULT flush in marzipan()
  • move the whole metaverif function to Python
• move the whole analyze function to Python
  • find the files
  • start subprocesses in parallel
  • wait for them to finish
• rebase from main
• ~~see if we still need the extra_args is None check in _run_proverif~`
• set colors differently to prevent injection attack
  • by calling a function
  • by prepared statements
• standalone function parse_result_line is no longer necessary
• is the clean function still necessary?
• implement better main function for click
• why does analyze fail when the target/proverif directory is not empty?
• return an exit status that is meaningful for CI
• exception handling in analyze() and in run_proverif()
• refactor filtering in run_proverif (see karo's comment)
• configurable target directory

Next Steps

• integrate marzipan.awk into Python, somehow
  • lark parser: multiline comments, how???
• rewrite marzipan.awk into Python/LARK
  • define a LARK grammar for marzipan.awk rules
  • write python code for processing marzipan rules, e.g. alias replacement (step: i.pv->o.pv)
• do not assume that the repo path has subdir marzipan
• do not assume that the repo path has subdir analysis
• rewrite cpp into Python/LARK (step: mpv->i.pv)
• integrate the Nix flake into the main Nix flake
  • pull the gawk dependency into the Nix flake
• think about next steps
  • integrate this upstream, into the CI?
  • “make it beautiful” steps? more resiliency to working directory?
  • rewrite our awk usages into Python/…?
    • yes, possibly as extension to the LARK grammar
    • and rewrite the AST within Python
    • reconstruct ProVerif input file for ProVerif
  • rewrite our CPP usages into Python/…?

“it replaces the Bash script and is idiomatic Python code”