{"id":55680,"date":"2024-03-26T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/freebsd-foundation-hands-out-beacon-gongs-for-safer-software\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T10:15:13","slug":"freebsd-foundation-hands-out-beacon-gongs-for-safer-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/freebsd-foundation-hands-out-beacon-gongs-for-safer-software\/","title":{"rendered":"FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for safer software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Beacon Awards has handed three prizes to projects working on safer software for CHERI-enabled hardware running on the CheriBSD operating system.<\/p>\n<p>For the unitiated, CHERI is an abbreviation of Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/freebsdfoundation.org\/blog\/beacon-awards-summary\/\">Beacon Awards<\/a> is a fresh scheme from the&nbsp;FreeBSD Foundation, in partnership with the UK government&#8217;s Digital Security by Design initiative, to reward efforts at safer software.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2ZgKyTow381vfJ830LV37iQAAAA4&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2ZgKyTow381vfJ830LV37iQAAAA4&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsbd.tech\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Digital Security by Design<\/a> initiative has been around for some six years now, and it funds multiple projects in the broader security R&amp;D field. <em>The Register<\/em> reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2019\/10\/18\/arm_security_by_design_research\/\">Arm jumping on board<\/a> in early 2019. It worked: It was awarded \u00a336 million ($45.43 million) at the gongs last week. Naturally, there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/12\/16\/national_cyber_strategy_uk_launched\/\">were talks<\/a> about <em>much<\/em> more money\u2026 but it&#8217;s good to know that some real technological developments have come out of this.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZgKyTow381vfJ830LV37iQAAAA4&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZgKyTow381vfJ830LV37iQAAAA4&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33ZgKyTow381vfJ830LV37iQAAAA4&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33ZgKyTow381vfJ830LV37iQAAAA4&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been reporting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/03\/10\/the_state_of_freebsd\/\">the FreeBSD project&#8217;s involvement<\/a> for some years now. One notable achievement was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/07\/26\/cheri_computer_runs_kde\/\">getting the whole KDE stack running<\/a>, as we covered in 2022, including a recap of the CHERI architecture. CHERI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cl.cam.ac.uk\/research\/security\/ctsrd\/cheri\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">started<\/a> at the University of Cambridge and there are versions for multiple architectures, including Arm&#8217;s Morello program.<\/p>\n<p>One grand prize went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojo-jvm.org\/research\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mojo JVM<\/a>. This is a memory-secure Java runtime that &#8220;can run existing Java applications with no or minimal code changes,&#8221; according to the awards page. Java isn&#8217;t trendy any more and applets in web pages disappeared years ago, but it remains very significant in internal business-process apps in many large companies. Its development is sponsored by The Hut Group, an etailer which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2018\/07\/05\/uk2_talktalk_outage\/\">occasionally<\/a> pops up on the <em>Register<\/em>. The team has a 17-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H-7zpyyB1Xw\" rel=\"nofollow\">Youtube video<\/a> explaining how CHERI can bring greater memory-safety to the OpenJDK JVM.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZgKyTow381vfJ830LV37iQAAAA4&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZgKyTow381vfJ830LV37iQAAAA4&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H-7zpyyB1Xw\" data-media=\"x-videoplayer\">Youtube Video<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Another grand prize went to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/lsds\/intravisor\" rel=\"nofollow\">Intravisor<\/a>, a new form of virtualization host for cloud software, which can run various kinds of VMs with greater isolation on CHERI-enabled hardware. This includes its own lightweight ones and unmodified Linux environments. There&#8217;s more info on the GitHub page, and there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fosdem.org\/2022\/schedule\/event\/tee_intravisor\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">talk<\/a> about Intravisor at the 2022 FOSDEM conference.<\/p>\n<p>The third grand prize went to the appropriately named <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Capabilities-Limited\/Capabilities-Limited.github.io\" rel=\"nofollow\">Capabilities Limited<\/a> for its work refactoring 1.7 million lines of existing C++ web services software to CheriBSD on Morello.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33ZgKyTow381vfJ830LV37iQAAAA4&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33ZgKyTow381vfJ830LV37iQAAAA4&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>Honorable mentions went to two pieces of research by the University of Glasgow&#8217;s Jeremy Singer. One is <a href=\"https:\/\/capabilitiesforcoders.com\/faq\/python.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Morello Micropython<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.gla.ac.uk\/304475\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">research project<\/a> that&#8217;s produced a CHERI-enabled Micropython interpreter. He has also been studying adapting the <a href=\"https:\/\/hboehm.info\/gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boehm garbage collector<\/a> to CHERI, which he terms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcs.gla.ac.uk\/~jsinger\/pdfs\/vee22.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Capability Boehm<\/a> [PDF].<\/p>\n<p>The many strands of CHERI research don&#8217;t get headlines in the same way as commercial R&amp;D on fancy new GPUs \u2013 or the latest models of CPU which are a few percent faster than the previous kit. This is partly because those are commercial projects and their backers want to sell more hardware, and it&#8217;s relatively easy to sell that something is faster than before.<\/p>\n<p>As the <em>Reg<\/em> FOSS desk&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/12\/25\/the_war_of_the_workstations\/\">holiday feature<\/a> explored at some length, in the course of developing inexpensive mass-market microcomputers, a lot of the security systems of earlier generations of computers were simply discarded, either for being too expensive or too much hard work. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/20130112225523\/http:\/\/www.eros-os.org\/essays\/capintro.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Capabilities<\/a> were just one of them.<\/p>\n<p>The CHERI research is looking for ways to restore these to existing systems running current software, with minimal modifications. If they&#8217;re successful, the resulting hardware and software will be slightly <em>slower<\/em> \u2013 but also immune, or at least far more robust against, all kinds of software vulnerabilities and exploits.<\/p>\n<p>As it is today, Linux has a bunch of performance-killing security features, whose impact you can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/07\/18\/improve_linux_performance\/\">if you just turn them off temporarily<\/a>. We&#8217;re <em>already<\/em> paying the speed penalty for this stuff. CHERI could do better. It&#8217;s a price worth paying. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/03\/26\/beacon_awards_freebsd\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple CHERI-related projects win money for important research that prizes safety over speed The inaugural Beacon Awards has handed three prizes to projects working on safer software for CHERI-enabled hardware running on the CheriBSD operating system.\u2026 READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ 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