[cap-talk] Architectural Choices for Security - moving forward

Jed Donnelley jed at nersc.gov
Mon Nov 12 17:24:53 EST 2007


On 11/12/2007 1:58 PM, Kevin Reid wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007, at 15:42, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> 
>> Open source seems to have some promise, but I hope we stay open to any
>> source of solutions.  E.g. Plash is open source but Polaris (and I
>> guess CapDesk?) are not.  They all provide value in "showing the way"
>> in my opinion.
> 
> CapDesk is certainly open source. It is entirely contained within the  
> E distribution.

Ah yes, I'd forgotten that point that MarkM noted to me recently.
I'll have to get a CapDesk running on some system to ram that
point home.  I really think CapDesk is a great demonstration
example, so I want to have an instance handy, as MarkM
does, for show and tell.  Thanks for the clarification.

--Jed


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