Re: Secure-linux and standard kernel

Mike (ford@omnicron.com)
Sun, 28 Jun 98 14:48:42 -0700

> > 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>

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