--- begin forwarded text Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:29:20 -0800 From: Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Old-Subject: Must-read capabilities paper To: "cypherpunks@Algebra. COM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Must-read capabilities paper Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is probably the most significant and insightful CS paper I have read in years. The paper didn't actually teach me something fundamentally new, having paid close attention to capabilities ever since a fateful Cypherpunks meeting at Stanford a few years back, but I have never seen such synthesis between so many seemingly disjoint important topics. From OS design to PKI, this paper touches on it all. What impressed me about this paper is that it made me think in new ways about stuff I already well understood. http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/ode/index.html --Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography, pg 446 http://www.citizensofamerica.org/missing.ram --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
