9 Jul
2018
9 Jul
'18
2:53 a.m.
On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 16:31:50 -0400 "Perry E. Metzger"
<perry(a)piermont.com> wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 23:40:36 -0700 Bakul Shah
<bakul(a)bitblocks.com>
wrote:
Thought I might mention where to find more information on that:
Paper:
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec10/tech/full_papers/Watson.pdf
Presentation at Usenix Security:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNx9L4VH2k
Web page:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/documentation.html
--
Perry E. Metzger perry(a)piermont.com
- Capabilities (a number of OSes implemented them
-- See Hank
Levy's book: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/
A fascinating resurrection of capabilities in a kind of pleasant
Unixy-way can be found in Robert Watson's "Capsicum" add-ons for
FreeBSD and Linux. I wish it was more widely known about and
adopted.