A more interesting Gnosis - A Prototype Operating System for the 1990's

Posted by jasongullickson on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:19AM
from the cis.upenn.edu dept.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/Gnosis/Gnosis.html

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Re:A more interesting Gnosis - A Prototype Operating System ... by olalonde on Monday December 13, 2010 @01:00AM (#1999530)

For those who might be wondering, this is in reference to the hacker group who recently hacked Gawker.

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Re:A more interesting Gnosis - A Prototype Operating System ... by kragen on Monday December 13, 2010 @01:14AM (#1999567)

It's great to see object-capability security being discussed on here! Mark Miller, Ben Laurie, and Mark Lentczner are working on how to apply this 1980s research in a web context at https://sites.google.com/site/belayresearchproject/ under the name "Belay". They're still in early stages...

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Re:A more interesting Gnosis - A Prototype Operating System ... by loewenskind on Monday December 13, 2010 @04:59AM (#1999985)

Doesn't SELinux use an object-capability model?

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Re:A more interesting Gnosis - A Prototype Operating System ... by abecedarius on Monday December 13, 2010 @05:04AM (#1999995)

No. The term is defined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model which says '(Note, however, that some uses of the term "capability" are not consistent with the model, such as POSIX "capabilities".)'

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Re:A more interesting Gnosis - A Prototype Operating System ... by cjtenny on Monday December 13, 2010 @02:13AM (#1999687)

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/ is perhaps also of interest, then.

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