[Cryptography] Oracle archeologists discover memory tagging
Henry Baker
hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Wed Oct 28 10:23:03 EDT 2015
Apparently, Oracle has been doing archeology research on old Burroughs (and MIT Lisp Machine) garbage dumps:
https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/sparc-m7-102615.html
Silicon Secured Memory For the first time,* Silicon Secured Memory adds real-time checking of access to data in memory to help protect against malicious intrusion and flawed program code in production for greater security and reliability.
* The first time since Larry's current engineers were born.
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