Library Compartmentalization using CHERI

April 26, 2024

2024   ·   hardware   cheri     ·   cheri  

At the CHERITech ‘24 workshop that was held at Cambridge University last week Robert Watson demostrated something rather exciting, Morello running full stack, pure capibility software. In addition, to having both spacial and temporal memory safety (i.e., complete memory safety) he also demostrated it having library compartmentialization with fast domain switching:

The Morello full stack demo begins around the 13 minute mark.

David Chisnall (formerly with Microsoft Research and now with the startup SCI Semiconductor) also gave a talk that describes why library compartmentialization is important for protecting supply chains:



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