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Balancing Disruption and Deployability in the CHERI Instruction-Set Architecture (ISA)

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Peer-reviewed

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Book chapter

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Authors

Watson, RNM 
Neumann, PG 
Moore, SW 

Abstract

For over two-and-a-half decades, dating to the first widespread commercial deployment of the Internet, commodity processor architectures have failed to provide robust and secure foundations for communication and commerce. This is in large part due to the omission of architectural features allowing efficient implementation of the Principle of Least Privilege, which dictates that software runs only with the rights it requires to operate [19, 20]. Without this support, the impact of inevitable vulnerabilities is multiplied as successful attackers gain easy access to unnecessary rights – and often, all rights – in software systems.

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Title

Balancing Disruption and Deployability in the CHERI Instruction-Set Architecture (ISA)

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New Solutions for Cybersecurity

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Publisher

MIT Press

ISBN

9780262535373