[E-Lang] A more critical question (was: an example impatience policy )

[Karp, Alan]

Zooko wrote:
> 
> However what we, and everyone else, need is a distributed, 
> attack-resistant,
> scalable mutable namespace, which seems like a difficult 
> problem and perhaps
> not even feasible.
> 

We think we built one with e-speak.  E-speak Beta 2.2 is built on the
concept that all names are local to a specific e-speak client (process) with
name mappings held in the core (TCB) address space.  There is no name
guessing attack, because the name is only meaningful to a single party, and
there are no name mapping attacks because the core requires explicit
authority to remap.  The e-speak product has relaxed this approach a bit by
introducing global references to these mappings, but the mappings themselves
are always used for resource access.

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