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Re: Programming languages for remote agents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Fri Aug 12 16:01:38 1994
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 21:58:26 +0200
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From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
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> this in Safe-TCL. The language doesn't have any simple way to
> determine whose authority a procedure executes with. Maybe Safe-TCL is
No, you need to write such a procedure.
> a useful platform on top of which one could build this kind of
> security model, but it isn't there, and it isn't obvious that Safe-TCL
> actually provides 'an open framework on which you can build' such
> applications.
I expect this is the sort of thing "DeclareHarmless" is supposed to be
for. Declare harmless a procedure which checks the signature, and if it's
valid, declare a bunch more stuff as harmless. - Darren
