# Master Thesis: Exploring Hardware-Assisted Type Safety in C++

Join our Team About this opportunity: Ericsson Research Security provides security expertise, architectures, and solutions for platforms, networks, and services. Its work spans areas including cryptography, secure networking, AI security, privacy, and software security. The project is hosted by Ericsson Research in Kista, within an international team working on software security, programming languages, and software reliability. C++ is widely used in performance-critical software, but its flexibility can make type safety difficult to guarantee. Type confusion, unsafe casts, and object-lifetime errors can lead to undefined behavior, invalid memory access, memory corruption, or control-flow hijacking. These risks are especially important in critical infrastructure, where vulnerabilities may affect essential services.This thesis will investigate how to strengthen protection against type-related vulnerabilities without restricting idiomatic C++ or adding prohibitive runtime overhead. You will examine software-based approaches such as TypeSan, EffectiveSan, and Type++, and assess whether hardware-assisted technologies such as CHERI and MTE can enable more efficient dynamic type enforceme

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