Projects of Academic Interests

In the world of hardware, the letter 'R' has many meanings: RISC, Robust, Resilient, Revolutionary .  Architecture, R2 , embraces all of them. Built on the foundation of RISC-V, R2 is a clean-slate design that moves security from the  software layer, primarily into the physical wiring of the CPU. R2 doesn't just ask the software to be "good"—it makes hardware physically incapable of being "bad." Here is how we are redesigning the core to kill the most common attack vectors at the silicon level. 1. R2-Tags: Data Isolation at 0-Cycles In a standard CPU, data is just bits. To an R2 processor, every 64-bit word is accompanied by a Metadata Security Tag . If "Trusted" data interacts with "Untrusted" data, the hardware automatically taints the result. The execution stage physically disconnects the "Write" signal if a tainted pointer tries to access a secure memory region. 2. The R2-Buffer: Zer...

  💥 The Necessary Crucible: The Evolution of Post-3100 BCE Geo-Politiks Forging a Unified World The blood is still wet on the ledger. For five millennia, from the moment a post-diluvian world created the first pockets of scarcity, human civilization has been sold to us as a grand, noble experiment: the inevitable march of progress, democracy, or divine order. The proposition I suggest today—the one that challenges every devoted patriot and political scientist—is that every civilization since 3100 BCE has been a massive, organized Monopoly Enterprise. I do not mean "Monopoly" merely as an economic term. I mean it precisely as the board game: an exercise in acquiring all property, eliminating all competitors, and setting a non-negotiable "price" (rent/taxation) for all who must land on your squares.  The laws, the flags, the ideologies—that is just the buttery icing on top of the board game's rulebook. The g...