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CHERI is not just for 64-bit architectures #10

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The second paragraph of "Security analysis of CHERI ISA.pdf" says "These capabilities are 128-bit extensions of 64-bit pointers", but that is not true. CHERI as a model works with any address space size and any capability size greater than that (though you likely want a power-of-two if you want any hope of things working, and you need enough bits to have useful precision), and we have a 32-bit RISC-V version implemented. Please either generalise this accordingly or clarify that you are talking about specific instantiations of CHERI.

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