[cap-talk] What sustained interest in capabilities

[ross mcginnis]

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> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:49:17 -0800
> From: erights at gmail.com
> To: cap-talk at mail.eros-os.org; martinscheffler at googlemail.com
> Subject: Re: [cap-talk] What sustained interest in capabilities
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> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:46 AM, ross mcginnis
> wrote:
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>> Are there actually any top-to-bottom projects out there?
>> By that I mean a single project that claims it is going to integrate or produce everything from a kernel all the way to a user's desktop environment based on caps with at least all the lower system level being verified.
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> I'm curious why you're tying the top-to-bottom security question to
> verification. 
 
Well I would be happy enough with a top-to-bottom cap system allows for the efficient and easy application of POLA.  (Acutally I would be more than happy- elated even:) )
I just mentioned the verification because it was mentioned in the previous toing-froing messages of the debate in this thread. Projects like Coyotos show that current state-of-the-art permits me to realistically dream of such a thing.
 
 
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