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CHERI Concentrate: Practical Compressed Capabilities

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CHERI Concentrate: Practical Compressed Capabilities

Jonathan Woodruff, Alexandre Joannou, Hongyan Xia, Anthony Fox, Robert Norton, Thomas Bauereiss, David Chisnall, Brooks Davis, Khilan Gudka, Nathaniel W. Filardo, A. Theodore Markettos, Michael Roe, Peter G. Neumann, Robert N. M. Watson, and Simon W. Moore. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2019.

Explains the compressed capability representation used to carry bounds and permissions efficiently.

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