Recent years have seen great advances towards verifying large-scale systems code.
However, these verifications are usually based on hand-written assembly or machine-code …

The root causes of many security vulnerabilities include a pernicious combination of two
problems, often regarded as inescapable aspects of computing. First, the protection …

Memory safety bugs continue to be a major source of security vulnerabilities in our critical
infrastructure. The CHERI project has proposed extending conventional architectures with …

Two main kinds of tools available for formal software verification are point tools and general-
purpose tools. Point tools are targeted towards bug-hunting or proving a fixed set of …

Abstract Machine-readable specifications for the Armv8 instruction set architecture have
become publicly available as part of Arm's release processes, providing an official and …

Formal verification is a promising technique to ensure the reliability of low-level programs
like operating systems and hypervisors, since it can show the absence of whole classes of …

High-performance memory safety: optimizing the CHERI capability machine Page 1 Technical
Report Number 936 Computer Laboratory UCAM-CL-TR-936 ISSN 1476-2986 High-performance …

High-performance memory safety Optimizing the CHERI capability machine Alexandre Jean-Michel
Procopi Joannou University of Cambr Page 1 High-performance memory safety Optimizing the …

Formal verification of a compiler offers the ultimate understanding of the behaviour of
compiled code: a mathematical proof relates the semantics of each output program to that of …

Despite decades of research, the computer industry still struggles to build secure systems.
The majority of security vulnerabilities are caused by a combination of two fundamental …