[e-lang] authority bounding for capabilities

[Fred Spiessens]

Hi all,

I'm working on a formal system for reasoning about authority bounding 
for capabilities, trying to formalize the ideas in Miller's and 
Shapiro's "Paradigm regained", and inspired by Saraswat's and 
Jagadeesan's "Static support for capability-based programming in Java".

You can find my (extremely) preliminary attempts at these URLs:

http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/fsp/captheory.doc
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/fsp/captheory.pdf

As this work is in an early stage, I would very much appreciate your 
comments, ideas and contributions.
I'm a bit stuck for the moment, thorn between 3 goals: keep it simple, 
make it expressive, don't re-invent any wheels.
To deal with the last concern, I'm now studying modal logic, as I found 
many similarities. Maybe some of you could point me in better 
directions here too?

I will keep the mentioned URLs up to date.
If there's enough interest for the subject,  I can set up a Wiki 
website to make co-operation easier.

Cheers,
Fred.

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Fred Spiessens
Researcher Software Security
Université catholique de Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
fsp@info.ucl.ac.be
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/fsp/fred.html