Robert N. M. Watson

63 papers A* 19A 5C 4Misc 2Journal 18Unranked 15

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	A*	`conf`	CHERIoT RTOS: An OS for Fine-Grained Memory-Safe Compartments on Low-Cost Embedded Devices. SOSP Saar Amar, Tony Chen, David Chisnall, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Ben Laurie, Hugo Lefeuvre, Kunyan Liu, Simon W. Moore, Robert Norton-Wright, Margo I. Seltzer, Yucong Tao, Robert N. M. Watson, Hongyan Xia
2025	A*	`conf`	Deprivileging Low-Level GPU Drivers Efficiently with User-Space Processes and CHERI Compartments. CCS Paul Metzger, A. Theodore Markettos, Edward Tomasz Napierala, Matthew Naylor, Robert N. M. Watson, Timothy M. Jones
2025	J	`jnl`	It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety. Commun. ACM Robert N. M. Watson, John Baldwin, David Chisnall, Tony Chen, Jessica Clarke, Brooks Davis, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Brett F. Gutstein, Graeme Jenkinson, Ben Laurie, Alfredo Mazzinghi, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Hamed Okhravi, Alex Richardson, Alex Rebert, Peter Sewell, Laurence Tratt, Murali Vijayaraghavan, Hugo Vincent, Konrad Witaszczyk
2024	J	`jnl`	CHERI: Hardware-Enabled C/C++ Memory Protection at Scale. IEEE Secur. Priv. 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
2024	—	`conf`	Cornucopia Reloaded: Load Barriers for CHERI Heap Temporal Safety. ASPLOS (2) 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
2024	—	`conf`	Formal Mechanised Semantics of CHERI C: Capabilities, Undefined Behaviour, and Provenance. ASPLOS (1) Vadim Zaliva, Kayvan Memarian, Ricardo Almeida, Jessica Clarke, Brooks Davis, Alexander Richardson, David Chisnall, Brian Campbell, Ian Stark, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell
2024	J	`jnl`	Randomized Testing of RISC-V CPUs Using Direct Instruction Injection. IEEE Des. Test 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
2024	C	`conf`	Safe Speculation for Cheri. ICCD Franz A. Fuchs, Jonathan Woodruff, Peter Rugg, Alexandre Joannou, Jessica Clarke, John Baldwin, Brooks Davis, Peter G. Neumann, Robert N. M. Watson, Simon W. Moore
2023	C	`conf`	Architectural Contracts for Safe Speculation. ICCD 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
2023	A*	`conf`	CHERIoT: Complete Memory Safety for Embedded Devices. MICRO 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
2023	J	`jnl`	The Arm Morello Evaluation Platform - Validating CHERI-Based Security in a High-Performance System. IEEE Micro Richard Grisenthwaite, Graeme Barnes, Robert N. M. Watson, Simon W. Moore, Peter Sewell, Jonathan Woodruff
2022	J	`jnl`	CompartOS: CHERI Compartmentalization for Embedded Systems. CoRR Hesham Almatary, Michael Dodson, Jessica Clarke, Peter Rugg, Ivan Gomes, Michal Podhradsky, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson
2022	A	`conf`	Verified Security for the Morello Capability-enhanced Prototype Arm Architecture. ESOP Thomas Bauereiss, Brian Campbell, Thomas Sewell, Alasdair Armstrong, Lawrence Esswood, Ian Stark, Graeme Barnes, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell
2020	—	`conf`	CHERI Macaroons: Efficient, host-based access control for cyber-physical systems. EuroS&P Workshops Michael Dodson, Alastair R. Beresford, Alexander Richardson, Jessica Clarke, Robert N. M. Watson
2020	A*	`conf`	Cornucopia: Temporal Safety for CHERI Heaps. SP 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
2020	—	`conf`	Position Paper: Defending Direct Memory Access with CHERI Capabilities. HASP@MICRO A. Theodore Markettos, John Baldwin, Ruslan Bukin, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson
2020	A*	`conf`	Rigorous engineering for hardware security: Formal modelling and proof in the CHERI design and implementation process. SP 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
2019	J	`jnl`	CHERI Concentrate: Practical Compressed Capabilities. IEEE Trans. Computers 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
2019	A*	`conf`	CHERIvoke: Characterising Pointer Revocation using CHERI Capabilities for Temporal Memory Safety. MICRO 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
2019	A*	`conf`	CheriABI: Enforcing Valid Pointer Provenance and Minimizing Pointer Privilege in the POSIX C Run-time Environment. ASPLOS 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
2019	J	`jnl`	Exploring C semantics and pointer provenance. Proc. ACM Program. Lang. Kayvan Memarian, Victor B. F. Gomes, Brooks Davis, Stephen Kell, Alexander Richardson, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell
2019	J	`jnl`	Memory-Side Protection With a Capability Enforcement Co-Processor. ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim. Leonid Azriel, Lukas Humbel, Reto Achermann, Alex Richardson, Moritz Hoffmann, Avi Mendelson, Timothy Roscoe, Robert N. M. Watson, Paolo Faraboschi, Dejan S. Milojicic
2019	J	`jnl`	Rack-Scale Capabilities: Fine-Grained Protection for Large-Scale Memories. Computer Kirk M. Bresniker, Paolo Faraboschi, Avi Mendelson, Dejan S. Milojicic, Timothy Roscoe, Robert N. M. Watson
2019	J	`jnl`	Through computer architecture, darkly. Commun. ACM A. Theodore Markettos, Robert N. M. Watson, Simon W. Moore, Peter Sewell, Peter G. Neumann
2019	A*	`conf`	Thunderclap: Exploring Vulnerabilities in Operating System IOMMU Protection via DMA from Untrustworthy Peripherals. NDSS A. Theodore Markettos, Colin Rothwell, Brett F. Gutstein, Allison Pearce, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson
2018	C	`conf`	CheriRTOS: A Capability Model for Embedded Devices. ICCD 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
2018	—	`conf`	Pointer Provenance in a Capability Architecture. TaPP Alfredo Mazzinghi, Ripduman Sohan, Robert N. M. Watson
2018	—	`conf`	Structural Analysis of Whole-System Provenance Graphs. IPAW Jyothish Soman, Thomas Bytheway, Lucian Carata, Nikilesh D. Balakrishnan, Ripduman Sohan, Robert N. M. Watson
2017	—	`conf`	Applying Provenance in APT Monitoring and Analysis: Practical Challenges for Scalable, Efficient and Trustworthy Distributed Provenance. TaPP 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
2017	A*	`conf`	CHERI JNI: Sinking the Java Security Model into the C. ASPLOS 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
2017	A*	`conf`	Disk\|Crypt\|Net: rethinking the stack for high-performance video streaming. SIGCOMM Ilias Marinos, Robert N. M. Watson, Mark Handley, Randall R. Stewart
2017	C	`conf`	Efficient Tagged Memory. ICCD 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
2017	A	`conf`	Separating Translation from Protection in Address Spaces with Dynamic Remapping. HotOS Reto Achermann, Chris I. Dalton, Paolo Faraboschi, Moritz Hoffmann, Dejan S. Milojicic, Geoffrey Ndu, Alexander Richardson, Timothy Roscoe, Adrian L. Shaw, Robert N. M. Watson
2017	J	`jnl`	Teaching Operating Systems with FreeBSD through Tracing, Analysis, and Experimentation. login Usenix Mag. George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N. M. Watson
2016	J	`jnl`	CHERI: A Hardware-Software System to Support the Principle of Least Privilege. ERCIM News Robert N. M. Watson, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann
2016	J	`jnl`	Fast Protection-Domain Crossing in the CHERI Capability-System Architecture. IEEE Micro 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
2016	A*	`conf`	Firmament: Fast, Centralized Cluster Scheduling at Scale. OSDI Ionel Gog, Malte Schwarzkopf, Adam Gleave, Robert N. M. Watson, Steven Hand
2016	A*	`conf`	Into the depths of C: elaborating the de facto standards. PLDI Kayvan Memarian, Justus Matthiesen, James Lingard, Kyndylan Nienhuis, David Chisnall, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell
2015	A*	`conf`	Beyond the PDP-11: Architectural Support for a Memory-Safe C Abstract Machine. ASPLOS David Chisnall, Colin Rothwell, Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Woodruff, Munraj Vadera, Simon W. Moore, Michael Roe, Brooks Davis, Peter G. Neumann
2015	A*	`conf`	CHERI: A Hybrid Capability-System Architecture for Scalable Software Compartmentalization. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 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
2015	A*	`conf`	Clean Application Compartmentalization with SOAAP. CCS Khilan Gudka, Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, David Chisnall, Brooks Davis, Ben Laurie, Ilias Marinos, Peter G. Neumann, Alex Richardson
2015	Misc	`conf`	Queues Don't Matter When You Can JUMP Them! NSDI Matthew P. Grosvenor, Malte Schwarzkopf, Ionel Gog, Robert N. M. Watson, Andrew W. Moore, Steven Hand, Jon Crowcroft
2014	A*	`conf`	Network stack specialization for performance. SIGCOMM Ilias Marinos, Robert N. M. Watson, Mark Handley
2014	A	`conf`	TESLA: temporally enhanced system logic assertions. EuroSys Jonathan Anderson, Robert N. M. Watson, David Chisnall, Khilan Gudka, Ilias Marinos, Brooks Davis
2014	A*	`conf`	The CHERI capability model: Revisiting RISC in an age of risk. ISCA 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
2013	J	`jnl`	A Decade of OS Access-control Extensibility. ACM Queue Robert N. M. Watson
2013	J	`jnl`	A decade of OS access-control extensibility. Commun. ACM Robert N. M. Watson
2013	A*	`conf`	Declarative, Temporal, and Practical Programming with Capabilities. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy William R. Harris, Somesh Jha, Thomas W. Reps, Jonathan Anderson, Robert N. M. Watson
2013	Misc	`conf`	Network stack specialization for performance. HotNets Ilias Marinos, Robert N. M. Watson, Mark Handley
2013	—	`conf`	Towards a Theory of Application Compartmentalisation (Transcript of Discussion). Security Protocols Workshop Robert N. M. Watson
2013	—	`conf`	Towards a Theory of Application Compartmentalisation. Security Protocols Workshop Robert N. M. Watson, Steven J. Murdoch, Khilan Gudka, Jonathan Anderson, Peter G. Neumann, Ben Laurie
2012	J	`jnl`	A taste of Capsicum: practical capabilities for UNIX. Commun. ACM Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie, Kris Kennaway
2012	—	`conf`	Exploring Compartmentalisation Hypotheses with SOAAP. SASO Workshops Khilan Gudka, Robert N. M. Watson, Steven Hand, Ben Laurie, Anil Madhavapeddy
2012	—	`conf`	Stayin' Alive: Aliveness as an Alternative to Authentication. Security Protocols Workshop Jonathan Anderson, Robert N. M. Watson
2011	—	`conf`	How to Keep Bad Papers Out of Conferences (with Minimum Reviewer Effort). Security Protocols Workshop Jonathan Anderson, Frank Stajano, Robert N. M. Watson
2010	A*	`conf`	Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX. USENIX Security Symposium Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie, Kris Kennaway
2010	J	`jnl`	Introducing Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX. login Usenix Mag. Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie, Kris Kennaway
2010	J	`jnl`	The Age of Avatar Realism. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. Laurel D. Riek, Robert N. M. Watson
2008	A	`conf`	Metrics for Security and Performance in Low-Latency Anonymity Systems. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Steven J. Murdoch, Robert N. M. Watson
2007	—	`conf`	Exploiting Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers. WOOT Robert N. M. Watson
2006	A	`conf`	Ignoring the Great Firewall of China. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Richard Clayton, Steven J. Murdoch, Robert N. M. Watson
2002	—	`conf`	Secure Active Network Prototypes. DANCE Sandra L. Murphy, Edward T. Lewis, Robert N. M. Watson
2001	—	`conf`	TrustedBSD: Adding Trusted Operating System Features to FreeBSD. USENIX ATC, FREENIX Track Robert N. M. Watson