[COFF] Other OSes?

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Mon Jul 9 06:53:17 AEST 2018


On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 16:31:50 -0400 "Perry E. Metzger"
<perry at piermont.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 23:40:36 -0700 Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com>
> wrote:
> > - Capabilities (a number of OSes implemented them -- See Hank
> > Levy's book: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/  
> 
> A fascinating resurrection of capabilities in a kind of pleasant
> Unixy-way can be found in Robert Watson's "Capsicum" add-ons for
> FreeBSD and Linux. I wish it was more widely known about and
> adopted.

Thought I might mention where to find more information on that:

Paper:
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec10/tech/full_papers/Watson.pdf

Presentation at Usenix Security:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNx9L4VH2k

Web page:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/documentation.html


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