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- I’m working on a DO-178C compliant verification suite for avionics software with Z3 at work, criminally underratedby ascent817
- If anyone wondering, because it took me a few hops to find out:
Z3 is a high-performance theorem prover being developed at Microsoft Research.
by greatgib - I like Z3 a lot. I think it's criminally underappreciated and underused. Here is a fairly interesting use I put it to a few years ago:
https://www.oranlooney.com/post/playfair/#known-plaintext-at...
Slightly more complicated than the toy examples shown in the documentation above, and hints at one of the real world use cases for Z3 - red teaming cryptography.
That said, I'm not sure the documentation linked above is really doing it any favors in terms of helping popularizing it.
by olooney