Isla: Integrating full-scale ISA semantics and axiomatic concurrency models (extended version). Alasdair Armstrong, Brian Campbell, Ben Simner, Christopher Pulte, and Peter Sewell. Formal Methods in System Design, May 2023. [ bib | doi | pdf | http | abstract ]
The Arm Morello Evaluation Platform---Validating CHERI-Based Security in a High-Performance System. Richard Grisenthwaite, Graeme Barnes, Robert N. M. Watson, Simon W. Moore, Peter Sewell, and Jonathan Woodruff. IEEE Micro, 43(3):50--57, 2023. [ bib | doi | http | abstract ]
Improving Security with Hardware Support: CHERI and Arm's Morello. Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell, and William Martin. The Next Wave (The National Security Agency's review of emerging technologies), 4(1):10--21, 2023. ISSN 2640-1789 (print), ISSN 2640-1797 (online). [ bib | project page | pdf | abstract ]
CN: Verifying systems C code with separation-logic refinement types. Christopher Pulte, Dhruv C. Makwana, Thomas Sewell, Kayvan Memarian, Peter Sewell, and Neel Krishnaswami. In POPL 2023. [ bib | doi | project page | pdf | abstract ]
Multicore Semantics: Making Sense of Relaxed Memory (MPhil slides), Peter Sewell, Christopher Pulte, Shaked Flur, Mark Batty, Luc Maranget, and Alasdair Armstrong, October 2022. [ bib | .pdf ]
Formal CHERI: rigorous engineering and design-time proof of full-scale architecture security properties, Peter Sewell, Thomas Bauereiss, Brian Campbell, and Robert N. M. Watson. Blog post, https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2022/07/22/formal-cheri/, July 2022. [ bib | project page | http ]
Islaris: Verification of Machine Code Against Authoritative ISA Semantics. Michael Sammler, Angus Hammond, Rodolphe Lepigre, Brian Campbell, Jean Pichon-Pharabod, Derek Dreyer, Deepak Garg, and Peter Sewell. In PLDI 2022. [ bib | doi | project page | pdf | abstract ]
N3005: A Provenance-aware Memory Object Model for C. Working Draft Technical Specification ISO/IEC TS 6010:2023 (E), Jens Gustedt, Peter Sewell, Kayvan Memarian, Victor B. F. Gomes, and Martin Uecker. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 N3005 http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3005.pdf, June 2022. [ bib | pdf | abstract ]
Verified Security for the Morello Capability-enhanced Prototype Arm Architecture. Thomas Bauereiss, Brian Campbell, Thomas Sewell, Alasdair Armstrong, Lawrence Esswood, Ian Stark, Graeme Barnes, Robert N. M. Watson, and Peter Sewell. In ESOP 2022. [ bib | doi | project page | pdf | http | abstract ]
Relaxed virtual memory in Armv8-A. Ben Simner, Alasdair Armstrong, Jean Pichon-Pharabod, Christopher Pulte, Richard Grisenthwaite, and Peter Sewell. In ESOP 2022. [ bib | doi | project page | pdf | http | abstract ]
Relaxed virtual memory in Armv8-A (extended version), Ben Simner, Alasdair Armstrong, Jean Pichon-Pharabod, Christopher Pulte, Richard Grisenthwaite, and Peter Sewell, March 2022. http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00642. [ bib | project page | pdf | abstract ]
VIP: Verifying Real-World C Idioms with Integer-Pointer Casts. Rodolphe Lepigre, Michael Sammler, Kayvan Memarian, Robbert Krebbers, Derek Dreyer, and Peter Sewell. In POPL 2022, Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 6, POPL, Article 20. [ bib | doi | supplementary material | project page | pdf | abstract ]
Bad Reasons to Reject Good Papers, and vice versa, Peter Sewell. SIGPLAN PL Perspectives Blog, December 2021. Also published 2022-12-07 on the Communications of the ACM Blog https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/267440-bad-reasons-to-reject-good-papers-and-vice-versa/fulltext. [ bib | http ]
Isla: Integrating full-scale ISA semantics and axiomatic concurrency models. Alasdair Armstrong, Brian Campbell, Ben Simner, Christopher Pulte, and Peter Sewell. In CAV 2021. [ bib | doi | pdf | http | abstract ]
N2676: A Provenance-aware Memory Object Model for C. Working Draft Technical Specification, Jens Gustedt, Peter Sewell, Kayvan Memarian, Victor B. F. Gomes, and Martin Uecker. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 N2676 http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2676.pdf, March 2021. [ bib | pdf | abstract ]
Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions: CHERI Instruction-Set Architecture (Version 8). Robert N. M. Watson, Peter G. Neumann, Jonathan Woodruff, Michael Roe, Hesham Almatary, Jonathan Anderson, John Baldwin, Graeme Barnes, David Chisnall, Jessica Clarke, Brooks Davis, Lee Eisen, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Richard Grisenthwaite, Alexandre Joannou, Ben Laurie, A. Theodore Markettos, Simon W. Moore, Steven J. Murdoch, Kyndylan Nienhuis, Robert Norton, Alexander Richardson, Peter Rugg, Peter Sewell, Stacey Son, and Hongyan Xia. Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-951, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, October 2020. [ bib | doi | project page | pdf | abstract ]
N2577: A Provenance-aware Memory Object Model for C. Working Draft Technical Specification, Jens Gustedt, Peter Sewell, Kayvan Memarian, Victor B. F. Gomes, and Martin Uecker. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 N2577 http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2577.pdf, September 2020. [ bib | pdf | abstract ]
CHERI C/C++ Programming Guide. Robert N. M. Watson, Alexander Richardson, Brooks Davis, John Baldwin, David Chisnall, Jessica Clarke, Nathaniel Filardo, Simon W. Moore, Edward Napierala, Peter Sewell, and Peter G. Neumann. Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-947, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, June 2020. [ bib | project page | pdf | abstract ]
Cornucopia: Temporal Safety for CHERI Heaps. Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Brett F. Gutstein, Jonathan Woodruff, Sam Ainsworth, Lucian Paul-Trifu, Brooks Davis, Hongyan Xia, Edward Tomasz Napierala, Alexander Richardson, John Baldwin, David Chisnall, Jessica Clarke, Khilan Gudka, Alexandre Joannou, A. Theodore Markettos, Alfredo Mazzinghi, Robert M. Norton, Michael Roe, Peter Sewell, Stacey Son, Timothy M. Jones, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, and Robert N. M. Watson. In Security and Privacy 2020. [ bib | doi | project page | pdf | abstract ]
Rigorous engineering for hardware security: Formal modelling and proof in the CHERI design and implementation process. Kyndylan Nienhuis, Alexandre Joannou, Thomas Bauereiss, Anthony Fox, Michael Roe, Brian Campbell, Matthew Naylor, Robert M. Norton, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Ian Stark, Robert N. M. Watson, and Peter Sewell. In Security and Privacy 2020. [ bib | doi | project page | pdf | abstract ]
ARMv8-A system semantics: instruction fetch in relaxed architectures. Ben Simner, Shaked Flur, Christopher Pulte, Alasdair Armstrong, Jean Pichon-Pharabod, Luc Maranget, and Peter Sewell. In ESOP 2020. [ bib | project page | pdf | abstract ]
An Introduction to CHERI. Robert N. M. Watson, Simon W. Moore, Peter Sewell, and Peter Neumann. Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-941, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, September 2019. [ bib | project page | pdf | abstract ]