Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Capabilities, this time in elf section | Date | Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:53:34 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
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> I've implemented this in another operating system before. Permissions are > handled by a security manager daemon which holds the various keys that the > machine trusts and what they are trusted with. Executables are signed by > one or more keys, and the executable contains the permission > information.
And each time a random executable is run the hash for the executable and any libraries it might use are computed? Sounds expensive... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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