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jrtc27 opened this issue Oct 12, 2020 · 0 comments
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CHERI is not just for 64-bit architectures #10

jrtc27 opened this issue Oct 12, 2020 · 0 comments

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jrtc27 commented Oct 12, 2020

The second paragraph of "Security analysis of CHERI ISA.pdf" says "These capabilities are 128-bit extensions of 64-bit pointers", but that is not true. CHERI as a model works with any address space size and any capability size greater than that (though you likely want a power-of-two if you want any hope of things working, and you need enough bits to have useful precision), and we have a 32-bit RISC-V version implemented. Please either generalise this accordingly or clarify that you are talking about specific instantiations of CHERI.

@jrtc27 jrtc27 changed the title CHERI is not for 64-bit architectures CHERI is not just for 64-bit architectures Oct 12, 2020
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