[cap-talk] On revocation and the use of wrappers and In Defense of Identities

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 02:24 -0800, Mark Miller wrote:
> On 12/5/06, Jed at Webstart <donnelley1 at webstart.com> wrote:
> >  I believe MarkM and I (I mention MarkM for credit and not for
> >  blame) have a solution for both Neal's concerns and for Jonathan's -
> >  though I despair of communicating this solution via email without
> >  a considerable additional amount of flap.  We discussed this topic
> >  extensively at HP last Friday.  Let me see if I can cut through some
> >  of the flap...:
> 
> Hi Jed. I just read it carefully, and I think it's an excellent
> summary of what this protocol accomplishes. Thanks!
> 
> My apologies to the list for not yet having the protocol in a coherent
> form that can be posted. I hope to do so soon.

I will respond to Jed's note separately. I just want to observe that
protocols which are satisfactory for language-based solutions sometimes
are not satisfactory for OS-based solutions, because there is a relative
factor of ~1000 in the round-trip overhead per interaction.

When you describe the protocol, please be careful to identify the number
of round trips, and also which environment you think it works for.
-- 
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Managing Director
The EROS Group, LLC
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