CHERI-RISC-V is being standardised [1], Codasip is working on a commercial implementation of CHERI-RISC-V [2], and lowRISC is working on the Sonata project [3]

CHERI-RISC-V is being standardised [1], Codasip is working on a commercial implementation of CHERI-RISC-V [2], and lowRISC is working on the Sonata project [3] implementing CHERIoT. The Early performance results from the prototype Morello microarchitecture report [4] predicts the overhead between 1.8% and 3.0%. We don’t know what that overhead would be in production until such a commercial implementation is delivered but we have enough evidence it is worth the effort with the current estimates and given that CHERI can deterministically prevent around 2/3 of memory-safety-related vulnerabilities [5], not to mention benefits of mitigating future unknown vulnerabilities with compartmentalisation. [1] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-cheri https://github.com/riscv/riscv-cheri [2] https://codasip.com/solutions/riscv-processor-safety-security/cheri/ https://codasip.com/solutions/riscv-processor-safety-securit... [3] https://www.sunburst-project.org/ https://www.sunburst-project.org/ [4] https://ctsrd-cheri.github.io/morello-early-performance-results/headline-results/initial-measured-performance.html https://ctsrd-cheri.github.io/morello-early-performance-resu... [5] https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/10/security-analysis-of-cheri-isa/ https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2020/10/security-analysis-of...