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Publications
CHERI: A Hybrid Capability-System Architecture for Scalable Software Compartmentalization
CHERI Concentrate: Practical Compressed Capabilities
CHERI: Hardware-Enabled C/C++ Memory Protection at Scale
CheriABI: Enforcing Valid Pointer Provenance and Minimizing Pointer Privilege in the POSIX C Run-time Environment
Cornucopia Reloaded: Load Barriers for CHERI Heap Temporal Safety
Cornucopia: Temporal Safety for CHERI Heaps
Formal Mechanised Semantics of CHERI C: Capabilities, Provenance, and Undefined Behaviour
It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety
The CHERI Capability Model: Revisiting RISC in an Age of Risk
News articles
CHERI memory safety mitigates LLM-discovered vulnerability in FreeBSD
28 April 2026
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New InnovateUK-funded project to merge CHERI support into FreeBSD
25 November 2025
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