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Short paper, so can be easily summarized. The claim is that security can be improved by these compiler and hardware assisted measures:

    - Stack Integrity
    - Control-Flow Integrity
    - Heap Data Integrity
    - Pointer Integrity and Unforgeability
They cite the deployment of these measures on recent Apple hardware as evidence of their effectiveness.



Exciting! I did not know about HW pointer authentication and it is ten years old now on ARM, the referenced papers are nice but honestly LLVM docs are a lot better.

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/PointerAuthentication.html

The papers: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentat... https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets...




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