[HN Gopher] Cheri C/C++ Programming Guide [pdf] ___________________________________________________________________ Cheri C/C++ Programming Guide [pdf] Author : mzs Score : 70 points Date : 2022-01-24 16:41 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.cl.cam.ac.uk) (TXT) w3m dump (www.cl.cam.ac.uk) | MaxBarraclough wrote: | Briefly discussed August 2020: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24114402 | | To restate my comment from that thread: here's the CHERI project | home-page, which may be more approachable than the paper: | | https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/ | transpute wrote: | The Cheri-QEMU emulator is available for experimentation, | https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/cheri... | monocasa wrote: | Very recent related conversation concerning the recent CHERI | development systems: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30007474 | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30007354 | erwincoumans wrote: | CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) extends | conventional hardware Instruction-Set Architectures (ISAs) with | new architectural features to enable fine-grained memory | protection and highly scalable software compartmentalization. | cbsmith wrote: | Alternatively, you could say it brings good ol' tagged memory | architectures back from the dust bin of history. ;-) | transpute wrote: | We may see Arm's MTE (memory tagging extensions) [1] on 2022 | Apple SoCs | | [1] https://community.arm.com/arm-community- | blogs/b/architecture... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-24 23:03 UTC)