Probabilistic memory safety using cryptography
US11295025B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 31, 2019 |
| Grant date | Apr 5, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 11, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02D10/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A chip for securing storage of information includes a manager to access a pointer and a cipher engine to decrypt stored data. The pointer includes a first area and a second area. The first area includes an address indicating a storage location of the data and the second area includes a safety tag. The cipher engine decrypts the data output from the storage location based on a key and the safety tag in the second area of the pointer. These and other operations may be performed based on metadata that indicate probabilities that a correct safety tag was used to decrypt the data. In another embodiment, the manager may be replaced with an L1 cache.
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