CHERI Frequently Asked Questions

University of Cambridge, SRI International, Digital Catapult

This is a living document with frequently asked questions regarding Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI). The document aims to help people get started with experimenting with CHERI hardware-software stacks, including Arm Morello and CHERI-RISC-V.

CHERI-related competition participants (e.g., Digital Security by Design Technology Access Programme (DSbD TAP), Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)) might find this document useful when exploring their project prototype ideas.

Contributions

We encourage anyone interested in improving this document to make contributions to it, e.g. by adding a new question or extending an answer. See How can I contribute to this document? for more information.

License

The CHERI FAQ repository is released under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Building

Building the book from the Markdown sources requires mdBook and mdbook-toc. Once installed, mdbook build will build the static HTML files in the book/ directory, whilst mdbook serve will build and serve them at http://localhost:3000. Please refer to the mdBook documentation for futher options.