After submitting my PhD thesis, one of my side projects over my final(?) unemployed summer has been setting up a couple of domains and a server. You remember those things, servers? Those things we all used before lambdas, workers, microservices, etc.? Well, I found one in the wild, and I wrangled it just right, and now I’m here to talk about it.
I got to give a short talk on my PhD work to close out the CHERI Blossoms 2026 conference! I was super excited to have the opportunity to present, and I think it went very well. This post serves as an archive of the video recording and the slide deck. Many thanks to my supervisor Simon W. Moore and collaborator Theo Markettos.
My first article, “How Flexible is CXL’s Memory Protection?”, was just published in ACM Queue (it’s even on the front cover!) It discusses PCIe and CXL, their memory security model (and how it leaves something to be desired), and various flavors of capability which may be able to help. The article is available online here, and I plan to publish a copy here in the coming weeks to demo my pie-in-the-sky alternative typesetting language.
This is a condensed version of my master’s thesis (from 15,000 to 5,000 words), which won the RISE 2022 Student competition! I also submitted a 5-minute presentation, which is available on YouTube and the project summary page.