What Is Capstone?

Capstone is a new capability-based instruction set architecture (ISA) that provides a unified hardware-software interface to support a wide range of security features, including spatial and temporal memory safety, enclaved trusted execution environments, and extensible privilege hierarchies.

If you want to cite Capstone, please use the following BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings {yu2023capstone,
    author = {Jason Zhijingcheng Yu and Conrad Watt and Aditya Badole and Trevor E. Carlson and Prateek Saxena},
    title = {Capstone: A Capability-based Foundation for Trustless Secure Memory Access},
    booktitle = {32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23)},
    year = {2023},
    isbn = {978-1-939133-37-3},
    address = {Anaheim, CA},
    pages = {787--804},
    url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/yu-jason},
    publisher = {USENIX Association},
    month = aug,
}

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