[cap-talk] A Plea for a Topic Change

[Ivan Krstić]

Mark S. Miller wrote:
> credit-where-due, is MarcS' CapDesk the first system (circa 2001?) to 
> implement narrow authorization by normal file-dialog-box interaction?

Ping wrote his SID papers for daw's grad security class at Berkeley,
CS261, in the fall of 2000:

    http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~ping/sid/ideus.html
    http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~ping/sid/design.html

That's the first time I encountered a proposal to implement a trusted
file chooser; CapDesk might well be the first actual implementation.

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