CHERI with a Linux on Top
September 24, 2025 TL;DR The CHERI project enhances system security by introducing “capabilities” in hardware instruction set extensions, providing hardware-level memory safety and fine-grained isolation for languages like C/C++. Carl Shaw presented the history, design, implementation, and progress of porting CHERI to Linux at LSS EU. CHERI has been implemented on platforms such as RISC-V … Read more
