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Must-read capabilities paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Mon Nov 1 14:17:40 1999
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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
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This is probably the most significant and insightful CS paper I have read in
years. The paper didn't actually teach me something fundamentally new,
having paid close attention to capabilities ever since a fateful Cypherpunks
meeting at Stanford a few years back, but I have never seen such synthesis
between so many seemingly disjoint important topics. From OS design to PKI,
this paper touches on it all. What impressed me about this paper is that it
made me think in new ways about stuff I already well understood.
http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/ode/index.html
--Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
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