David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Our 2015 #CHERI paper won the Test of Time Award at IEEE Security and Privacy today!
Back then, CHERI capabilities were 256 bits (for a 64-bit address space) and were only just usable as C pointers. We didn’t have the pure-capability ABI properly supported in the compiler and were mostly using explicit annotations. Oh, and the prototype was still using MIPS.
CHERI has come a long way since then!
Oh, and back then we thought 15 authors on a paper was a lot!
(They told us a while ago but it was embargoed until the official announcement)
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