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title: "RustBelt: Securing the Foundations of the Rust Programming Language"
categories: research rust
-forum: https://internals.rust-lang.org/
+forum: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rustbelt-securing-the-foundations-of-the-rust-programming-language/5509
---
Just yesterday, we submitted our paper [RustBelt: Securing the Foundations of the Rust Programming Language](https://www.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/papers/rustbelt/paper.pdf).
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-This paper is the result of almost two years of work by the [RustBelt](http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/) research project to [formalize Rust's type system]({{ site.baseurl }}{% post_url 2015-10-12-formalizing-rust %}).
+This paper is the result of almost two years of work by the [RustBelt](https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/) research project to [formalize Rust's type system]({{ site.baseurl }}{% post_url 2015-10-12-formalizing-rust %}).
The paper is now undergoing peer review; some time in fall we will be notified whether the paper got accepted or not.
In case you wondered which "important libraries" we verified, the full list is `Rc`, `Arc`, `Cell` (including [`alias::one`](https://huonw.github.io/alias/alias/fn.one.html), which was recently [accepted into the standard library](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1789)), `RefCell`, `Mutex`, `RwLock`, `thread::spawn`, `mem::swap`, [`take_mut::take`](https://docs.rs/take_mut/0.1.3/take_mut/fn.take.html) as well as converting `&&T` into `&Box<T>` (inspired by [Abomonation](http://www.frankmcsherry.org/serialization/2015/05/04/unsafe-at-any-speed.html)).