[cap-talk] Reducing Ambient user authority in a Type Safe/Memory Safe OS.

[Karp, Alan H]

Ben Kloosterman wrote:
> 
> WYCSIWYCU would be nice. If they share the same machine is there a
> convenient way to delegate it ?
>
A key property of a capability is that it is delegatable. If a user has a capability and a reference to another user, then the capability can be delegated.  How that is done depends on the particular system.

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