[cap-talk] Confused Deputies and Rights Amplification

[Norman Hardy]

On 2008 Feb 19, at 20:57 , Bill Frantz wrote:

> clandau at macslab.com (Charles Landau) on Tuesday, February 19, 2008  
> wrote:
>
>> At 7:20 PM -0800 2/19/08, Norman Hardy wrote:
>>> Actually the can opener was O(n). It was for pure convenience and
>>> nominally to bundle authority.
>>> As we used it each programmer would have his own can opener for the
>>> things he had programmed.
>>
>> I can't find "canopener" in the KeyKOS document. Are you both talking
>> about the key-indexed directory? It did not do amplification, just  
>> EQ.
>
> I think the canopener was a factory creator with recall builder
> rights <http://www.agorics.com/Library/KeyKos/Gnosis/70.html>.
> This key was available in SYSNODE slot 9's slot 13.
> <http://www.agorics.com/Library/KeyKos/Gnosis/101.html#sysnode>.
>
> When we pulled a copy of that key into our personal directories, we
> tended to call it CANOPENER.
>
> Cheers - Bill

Thats right. I should have read ahead instead of answering as I did at  
18:58 PST.