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

[Karp, Alan H]

MarkM wrote:


Ø  I consider an unguessable swiss number to be a simple form of crypto -- perhaps the simplest form.

The only requirement for a swiss number is that it be unguessable.  Cryptography is one way to generate such numbers, but there are others.  For example, there's a guy at PARC who uses a Lava lamp.  The numbers he generates are unguessable, but there's no cryptography involved.  I think the name should reflect some essential property, not the means of obtaining that property.

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