Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:51:44 -0400 (EDT) | | From | <> | | Subject | Re: Secure-linux and standard kernel |
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Mike Ford Ditto wrote:
> > > The implementation of what Andrej prefers to call capabilities, has > > > > And what the designers and implementors of L4, EROS, KeyKOS, GNOSIS, > > XOK/EXOS, Grasshopper and other academic, experimental, commercial and > > military capability based operating systems dating from today and all > > the way back to 1960's, together with respected names of computer > > security industry, such as Landau, Hardy, Schroeder, Saltzer and others, > > prefer to call. > > And the Amoeba research distributed OS uses the term "capabilities" for > yet another radically different (and quite interesting) concept which > overlaps somewhat with security mechanism design. Obviously there is > not a universal meaning of the term in the world of computer science. > > <http://www.cs.unc.edu/~sharma/professional/papers/amoeba/amoeba.html>
As far as I can recall both the above mentioned KeyOS and Grasshopper also you Amoeba like capabilities.
That type of system is very intresting, however, I seriously doubt you could make it work in a Unix enviroment, it's too differnt.
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