[cap-talk] password capabilities & object capability model?

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:01:13 -0400,
Kevin Reid wrote:
> MarkM is the expert, but I would say that an object-capability system  
> is one which is used in the style of object-oriented programming, such  
> that the objects are capabilities.

I don't think that objects and capabilities are equivalent.  As I
understand it, capabilities are references that designate objects.

Neal