Robert N. M. Watson

According to our database, Robert N. M. Watson authored at least 58 papers between 2001 and 2024.

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2024

Randomized Testing of RISC-V CPUs Using Direct Instruction Injection.

Alexandre Joannou, Peter Rugg, Jonathan Woodruff, Franz A. Fuchs, Marno van der Maas, Matthew Naylor, Michael Roe, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore

IEEE Des. Test, February, 2024

CHERI: Hardware-Enabled C/C++ Memory Protection at Scale.

Robert N. M. Watson, David Chisnall, Jessica Clarke, Brooks Davis, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Ben Laurie, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Alexander Richardson, Peter Sewell, Konrad Witaszczyk, Jonathan Woodruff

IEEE Secur. Priv., 2024

Formal Mechanised Semantics of CHERI C: Capabilities, Undefined Behaviour, and Provenance.

Vadim Zaliva, Kayvan Memarian, Ricardo Almeida, Jessica Clarke, Brooks Davis, Alexander Richardson, David Chisnall, Brian Campbell, Ian Stark, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell

Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2024

Cornucopia Reloaded: Load Barriers for CHERI Heap Temporal Safety.

Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Brett F. Gutstein, Jonathan Woodruff, Jessica Clarke, Peter Rugg, Brooks Davis, Mark Johnston, Robert M. Norton, David Chisnall, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2024

2023

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, Jonathan Woodruff

IEEE Micro, 2023

CHERIoT: Complete Memory Safety for Embedded Devices.

Saar Amar, David Chisnall, Tony Chen, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Ben Laurie, Kunyan Liu, Robert M. Norton, Simon W. Moore, Yucong Tao, Robert N. M. Watson, Hongyan Xia

Proceedings of the 56th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2023

Architectural Contracts for Safe Speculation.

Franz A. Fuchs, Jonathan Woodruff, Peter Rugg, Marno van der Maas, Alexandre Joannou, Alexander Richardson, Jessica Clarke, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Brooks Davis, John Baldwin, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, 2023

2022

CompartOS: CHERI Compartmentalization for Embedded Systems.

Hesham Almatary, Michael Dodson, Jessica Clarke, Peter Rugg, Ivan Gomes, Michal Podhradsky, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson

CoRR, 2022

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, Peter Sewell

Proceedings of the Programming Languages and Systems, 2022

2020

Rigorous engineering for hardware security: Formal modelling and proof in the CHERI design and implementation process.

Kyndylan Nienhuis, Alexandre Joannou, Thomas Bauereiss, Anthony C. J. Fox, Michael Roe, Brian Campbell, Matthew Naylor, Robert M. Norton, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Ian Stark, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2020

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 D. Son, Timothy M. Jones, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2020

Position Paper: Defending Direct Memory Access with CHERI Capabilities.

A. Theodore Markettos, John Baldwin, Ruslan Bukin, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the HASP@MICRO 2020: Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, 2020

CHERI Macaroons: Efficient, host-based access control for cyber-physical systems.

Michael Dodson, Alastair R. Beresford, Alexander Richardson, Jessica Clarke, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, 2020

2019

CHERI Concentrate: Practical Compressed Capabilities.

Jonathan Woodruff, Alexandre Joannou, Hongyan Xia, Anthony C. J. Fox, Robert M. Norton, David Chisnall, Brooks Davis, Khilan Gudka, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, A. Theodore Markettos, Michael Roe, Peter G. Neumann, Robert N. M. Watson, Simon W. Moore

IEEE Trans. Computers, 2019

Memory-Side Protection With a Capability Enforcement Co-Processor.

Leonid Azriel, Lukas Humbel, Reto Achermann, Alex Richardson, Moritz Hoffmann, Avi Mendelson, Timothy Roscoe, Robert N. M. Watson, Paolo Faraboschi, Dejan S. Milojicic

ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim., 2019

Exploring C semantics and pointer provenance.

Kayvan Memarian, Victor B. F. Gomes, Brooks Davis, Stephen Kell, Alexander Richardson, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell

Proc. ACM Program. Lang., 2019

Rack-Scale Capabilities: Fine-Grained Protection for Large-Scale Memories.

Kirk M. Bresniker, Paolo Faraboschi, Avi Mendelson, Dejan S. Milojicic, Timothy Roscoe, Robert N. M. Watson

Computer, 2019

Through computer architecture, darkly.

A. Theodore Markettos, Robert N. M. Watson, Simon W. Moore, Peter Sewell, Peter G. Neumann

Commun. ACM, 2019

Thunderclap: Exploring Vulnerabilities in Operating System IOMMU Protection via DMA from Untrustworthy Peripherals.

A. Theodore Markettos, Colin Rothwell, Brett F. Gutstein, Allison Pearce, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2019

CHERIvoke: Characterising Pointer Revocation using CHERI Capabilities for Temporal Memory Safety.

Hongyan Xia, Jonathan Woodruff, Sam Ainsworth, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Michael Roe, Alexander Richardson, Peter Rugg, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson, Timothy M. Jones

Proceedings of the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2019

CheriABI: Enforcing Valid Pointer Provenance and Minimizing Pointer Privilege in the POSIX C Run-time Environment.

Brooks Davis, Robert N. M. Watson, Alexander Richardson, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, John Baldwin, David Chisnall, Jessica Clarke, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Khilan Gudka, Alexandre Joannou, Ben Laurie, A. Theodore Markettos, J. Edward Maste, Alfredo Mazzinghi, Edward Tomasz Napierala, Robert M. Norton, Michael Roe, Peter Sewell, Stacey D. Son, Jonathan Woodruff

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2019

2018

Pointer Provenance in a Capability Architecture.

Alfredo Mazzinghi, Ripduman Sohan, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance, 2018

Structural Analysis of Whole-System Provenance Graphs.

Jyothish Soman, Thomas Bytheway, Lucian Carata, Nikilesh D. Balakrishnan, Ripduman Sohan, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes, 2018

CheriRTOS: A Capability Model for Embedded Devices.

Hongyan Xia, Jonathan Woodruff, Hadrien Barral, Lawrence Esswood, Alexandre Joannou, Robert Kovacsics, David Chisnall, Michael Roe, Brooks Davis, Edward Napierala, John Baldwin, Khilan Gudka, Peter G. Neumann, Alexander Richardson, Simon W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, 2018

2017

Teaching Operating Systems with FreeBSD through Tracing, Analysis, and Experimentation.

George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N. M. Watson

login Usenix Mag., 2017

Applying Provenance in APT Monitoring and Analysis: Practical Challenges for Scalable, Efficient and Trustworthy Distributed Provenance.

Graeme Jenkinson, Lucian Carata, Thomas Bytheway, Ripduman Sohan, Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Brian J. Kidney, Amanda Strnad, Arun Thomas, George V. Neville-Neil

Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance, 2017

Disk|Crypt|Net: rethinking the stack for high-performance video streaming.

Ilias Marinos, Robert N. M. Watson, Mark Handley, Randall R. Stewart

Proceedings of the Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, 2017

Efficient Tagged Memory.

Alexandre Joannou, Jonathan Woodruff, Robert Kovacsics, Simon W. Moore, Alex Bradbury, Hongyan Xia, Robert N. M. Watson, David Chisnall, Michael Roe, Brooks Davis, Edward Napierala, John Baldwin, Khilan Gudka, Peter G. Neumann, Alfredo Mazzinghi, Alex Richardson, Stacey D. Son, A. Theodore Markettos

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, 2017

Separating Translation from Protection in Address Spaces with Dynamic Remapping.

Reto Achermann, Chris I. Dalton, Paolo Faraboschi, Moritz Hoffmann, Dejan S. Milojicic, Geoffrey Ndu, Alex Richardson, Timothy Roscoe, Adrian L. Shaw, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 2017

CHERI JNI: Sinking the Java Security Model into the C.

David Chisnall, Brooks Davis, Khilan Gudka, David Brazdil, Alexandre Joannou, Jonathan Woodruff, A. Theodore Markettos, J. Edward Maste, Robert M. Norton, Stacey D. Son, Michael Roe, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Ben Laurie, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2017

2016

Fast Protection-Domain Crossing in the CHERI Capability-System Architecture.

Robert N. M. Watson, Robert M. Norton, Jonathan Woodruff, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Jonathan Anderson, David Chisnall, Brooks Davis, Ben Laurie, Michael Roe, Nirav H. Dave, Khilan Gudka, Alexandre Joannou, A. Theodore Markettos, Ed Maste, Steven J. Murdoch, Colin Rothwell, Stacey D. Son, Munraj Vadera

IEEE Micro, 2016

CHERI: A Hardware-Software System to Support the Principle of Least Privilege.

Robert N. M. Watson, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann

ERCIM News, 2016

Into the depths of C: elaborating the de facto standards.

Kayvan Memarian, Justus Matthiesen, James Lingard, Kyndylan Nienhuis, David Chisnall, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell

Proceedings of the 37th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2016

Firmament: Fast, Centralized Cluster Scheduling at Scale.

Ionel Gog, Malte Schwarzkopf, Adam Gleave, Robert N. M. Watson, Steven Hand

Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2016

2015

CHERI: A Hybrid Capability-System Architecture for Scalable Software Compartmentalization.

Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Woodruff, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, Jonathan Anderson, David Chisnall, Nirav H. Dave, Brooks Davis, Khilan Gudka, Ben Laurie, Steven J. Murdoch, Robert M. Norton, Michael Roe, Stacey D. Son, Munraj Vadera

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2015

Queues Don't Matter When You Can JUMP Them!

Matthew P. Grosvenor, Malte Schwarzkopf, Ionel Gog, Robert N. M. Watson, Andrew W. Moore, Steven Hand, Jon Crowcroft

Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2015

Clean Application Compartmentalization with SOAAP.

Khilan Gudka, Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, David Chisnall, Brooks Davis, Ben Laurie, Ilias Marinos, Peter G. Neumann, Alex Richardson

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2015

Beyond the PDP-11: Architectural Support for a Memory-Safe C Abstract Machine.

David Chisnall, Colin Rothwell, Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Woodruff, Munraj Vadera, Simon W. Moore, Michael Roe, Brooks Davis, Peter G. Neumann

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2015

2014

The CHERI capability model: Revisiting RISC in an age of risk.

Jonathan Woodruff, Robert N. M. Watson, David Chisnall, Simon W. Moore, Jonathan Anderson, Brooks Davis, Ben Laurie, Peter G. Neumann, Robert M. Norton, Michael Roe

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2014

TESLA: temporally enhanced system logic assertions.

Jonathan Anderson, Robert N. M. Watson, David Chisnall, Khilan Gudka, Ilias Marinos, Brooks Davis

Proceedings of the Ninth Eurosys Conference 2014, 2014

2013

A Decade of OS Access-control Extensibility.

Robert N. M. Watson

ACM Queue, 2013

Towards a Theory of Application Compartmentalisation.

Robert N. M. Watson, Steven J. Murdoch, Khilan Gudka, Jonathan Anderson, Peter G. Neumann, Ben Laurie

Proceedings of the Security Protocols XXI, 2013

Towards a Theory of Application Compartmentalisation (Transcript of Discussion).

Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the Security Protocols XXI, 2013

Declarative, Temporal, and Practical Programming with Capabilities.

William R. Harris, Somesh Jha, Thomas W. Reps, Jonathan Anderson, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2013

Network stack specialization for performance.

Ilias Marinos, Robert N. M. Watson, Mark Handley

Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, 2013

2012

A taste of Capsicum: practical capabilities for UNIX.

Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie, Kris Kennaway

Commun. ACM, 2012

Stayin' Alive: Aliveness as an Alternative to Authentication.

Jonathan Anderson, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the Security Protocols XX, 2012

Exploring Compartmentalisation Hypotheses with SOAAP.

Khilan Gudka, Robert N. M. Watson, Steven Hand, Ben Laurie, Anil Madhavapeddy

Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, 2012

2011

New approaches to operating system security extensibility.

Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson

PhD thesis, 2011

How to Keep Bad Papers Out of Conferences (with Minimum Reviewer Effort).

Jonathan Anderson, Frank Stajano, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the Security Protocols XIX, 2011

2010

Introducing Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX.

Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie, Kris Kennaway

login Usenix Mag., 2010

The Age of Avatar Realism.

Laurel D. Riek, Robert N. M. Watson

IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2010

Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX.

Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie, Kris Kennaway

Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Security Symposium, 2010

2008

Metrics for Security and Performance in Low-Latency Anonymity Systems.

Steven J. Murdoch, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2008

2007

Exploiting Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers.

Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the First USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, 2007

2006

Ignoring the Great Firewall of China.

Richard Clayton, Steven J. Murdoch, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 6th International Workshop, 2006

2002

Secure Active Network Prototypes.

Sandra L. Murphy, Edward T. Lewis, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 2002 DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition (DANCE 2002), 2002

2001

TrustedBSD: Adding Trusted Operating System Features to FreeBSD.

Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2001