News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Keeping Memory Contents Secret. Parent comment

Re:Keeping Memory Contents Secret by nullc on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:58AM (#21626734)
I can't figure out why there doesn't seem to be a commercial market for something like CHERI ( https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/ ) ... even if it was considerably slower than top end CPUs there are plenty of applications that don't care (and find chips like arm a8 or atom fast enough) but where high security is paramount.

Maybe Intel still remembers the pain of iAXP 432 but that doesn't explain the rest of the industry.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Keeping Memory Contents Secret by rst on Monday November 25, 2019 @01:05PM (#21630932)
ARM is doing CHERI-enhanced cores, at least as a research project: https://www.eetasia.com/news/article/CHERI-based-Prototype-t...

There's also Dover Microsystems, which is trying to commercialize similar-in-spirit processor extensions originally developed at Draper Labs.

[ Parent | on HN ]