Split Capabilities: Making Capabilities Scale

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

> I'm trained in astrophysics.  To me, 324 bytes is of the order of 1 KB.
> Besides, I believe that delegated certificates encode the chain of
> delegation and are therefore larger.

>From an OS point of view, this is actually a bigger problem than the
absolute size issue. It is most unfortunate if your atomic unit of
authorization to be variable size and is managed by kernel code.

"Death to complexity!", raged the screaming software fanatic, drawing his
razor-sharp text editor from it's sheath and slashing the infidel's code.
:-)

Hmm. My future as a thriller writer seems limited. I suppose I'll stick to
software.

shap