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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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