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Alan Karp, … Matt Rice13

Nov 11

Sealer/unsealer with capability certificates

On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 9:41 AM Mark S. Miller <eri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A comparison

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Sealer/unsealer with capability certificates

On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 9:41 AM Mark S. Miller <eri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A comparison

Nov 11

Nov 10

Fwd: Alin Tomescu on Nov 16 -- UTT: Sensibly-Anonymous Decentralized Payments from Rerandomizable Signatures

Nothing about capabilities, but I believe some of you are interested in e-cash. The talks in this

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Fwd: Alin Tomescu on Nov 16 -- UTT: Sensibly-Anonymous Decentralized Payments from Rerandomizable Signatures

Nothing about capabilities, but I believe some of you are interested in e-cash. The talks in this

Nov 10

Oct 24

rebooting might not be enough

> Rebooting was found to be ineffective to clear erroneous behavior, and only partially effective

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rebooting might not be enough

> Rebooting was found to be ineffective to clear erroneous behavior, and only partially effective

Oct 24

Oct 9

Things get complicated if you don't use capabilities

AWS has a confused deputy problem with its use of roles. This medium post describes how they propose

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Things get complicated if you don't use capabilities

AWS has a confused deputy problem with its use of roles. This medium post describes how they propose

Oct 9

Oct 3

Confused deputy-esque attack: sudo logrotate

https://joshua.hu/gaining-root-with-logrotate-sudo-ubuntu -- Tony Arcieri

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Confused deputy-esque attack: sudo logrotate

https://joshua.hu/gaining-root-with-logrotate-sudo-ubuntu -- Tony Arcieri

Oct 3

Alan Karp, … Mark S. Miller10

Oct 2

Certificate capabilities using symmetric keys

Of historic interest (only?): http://erights.org/elib/distrib/captp/unibus.html But only for online

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Certificate capabilities using symmetric keys

Of historic interest (only?): http://erights.org/elib/distrib/captp/unibus.html But only for online

Oct 2

Matt Rice, … Christine Lemmer-Webber9

Oct 2

Negative capabilities

Ah, ok. If the issue is another voluntary oblivious compliance example, then yes it could work. Alan

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Negative capabilities

Ah, ok. If the issue is another voluntary oblivious compliance example, then yes it could work. Alan

Oct 2

Christopher Allen, … Alan Karp4

Sep 29

Article: Least & Necessary (from: Musing of a Trust Architect)

There's an old saying, "with privilege comes responsibility." We give you lots of

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Article: Least & Necessary (from: Musing of a Trust Architect)

There's an old saying, "with privilege comes responsibility." We give you lots of

Sep 29

Sep 21

vat upgrade in production: Agoric smart wallet supports NFTs

#49 Upgrade Smart Wallet to support NFTs just completed, in block 11731339 on the Agoric production

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vat upgrade in production: Agoric smart wallet supports NFTs

#49 Upgrade Smart Wallet to support NFTs just completed, in block 11731339 on the Agoric production

Sep 21

Sep 8

Verifiable credentials as capabilities

Yes, this one has reared its ugly head again. I've put a draft of what my intended response below

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Verifiable credentials as capabilities

Yes, this one has reared its ugly head again. I've put a draft of what my intended response below

Sep 8

Jul 25

ot: random elisp factoid

did not know this existed & is built-in. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/

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ot: random elisp factoid

did not know this existed & is built-in. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/

Jul 25

Raoul Duke, … Matt Rice8

Jul 23

Creeper: a tool for detecting permission creep in file system access controls | Cybersecurity | Full Text

On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 10:27 PM Alan Karp <alan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul

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Creeper: a tool for detecting permission creep in file system access controls | Cybersecurity | Full Text

On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 10:27 PM Alan Karp <alan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul

Jul 23

Alan Karp, Matt Rice6

Jul 17

Designating the resource in an invocation

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 4:46 PM Matt Rice <rat...@gmail.com> wrote: Ouch, only looking at

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Designating the resource in an invocation

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 4:46 PM Matt Rice <rat...@gmail.com> wrote: Ouch, only looking at

Jul 17

Jun 23

Publishing opportunity

https://www.springeropen.com/collections/tdispt Although the title doesn't sound interesting to

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Publishing opportunity

https://www.springeropen.com/collections/tdispt Although the title doesn't sound interesting to

Jun 23

William ML Leslie, … Mike Stay3

Jun 7

Maybe some Pony vids? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1JfYa413fY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

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Maybe some Pony vids? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1JfYa413fY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Jun 7

Alan Karp, … Rob Meijer13

May 22

Here's what I told the DWN people

Yes it does. Thanks for explaining so clearly. -------------- Alan Karp On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 8:11

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Here's what I told the DWN people

Yes it does. Thanks for explaining so clearly. -------------- Alan Karp On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 8:11

May 22

May 18

Another DWN write-up

Like UCAN, DWN allows wildcard capabilities. For example, Alice can give Bob access to everything in

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Another DWN write-up

Like UCAN, DWN allows wildcard capabilities. For example, Alice can give Bob access to everything in

May 18

Alan Karp, Mark S. Miller3

May 18

Capability revocation

That's my understanding. -------------- Alan Karp On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 11:38 AM Mark S. Miller

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Capability revocation

That's my understanding. -------------- Alan Karp On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 11:38 AM Mark S. Miller

May 18

randy....@pobox.com

Apr 12

Spritely Institute's new Causeway-inspired debugger

We took the ideas of Causeway and created live debugging tooling with time-travel! https://spritely.

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Spritely Institute's new Causeway-inspired debugger

We took the ideas of Causeway and created live debugging tooling with time-travel! https://spritely.

Apr 12

Pierre Thierry, … Alan Karp8

Mar 21

Capabilities in a REST API

Nothing says the opaque string used for the capability can't have structure. For example, it

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Capabilities in a REST API

Nothing says the opaque string used for the capability can't have structure. For example, it

Mar 21

F. Randall Farmer, Pierre Thierry2

Mar 20

Growing a Networked Garden with Spritely Goblins

It's pretty impressive how easy goblins makes it to have the code exposed on OcapN/CapTP! Le

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Growing a Networked Garden with Spritely Goblins

It's pretty impressive how easy goblins makes it to have the code exposed on OcapN/CapTP! Le

Mar 20

Alan Karp, … Pierre Thierry6

Mar 20

Have we won the war?

There's an English version of the post. ;-) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pierrethierry_this-is-

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Have we won the war?

There's an English version of the post. ;-) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pierrethierry_this-is-

Mar 20

Christine Lemmer-Webber

Feb 3

Effects, capabilities, and boxes: From Scope-Based Reasoning to Type-Based Reasoning and Back

Has this come up before? On the queue for me to read, Brooklyn Zelenka recommended it to me: https://

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Effects, capabilities, and boxes: From Scope-Based Reasoning to Type-Based Reasoning and Back

Has this come up before? On the queue for me to read, Brooklyn Zelenka recommended it to me: https://

Feb 3

Christine Lemmer-Webber

Feb 3

Spritely Goblins v0.10 released with Guile & Racket talking over OCapN/CapTP!

I forgot to link this one, but it's kind of a doozy: https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-

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Spritely Goblins v0.10 released with Guile & Racket talking over OCapN/CapTP!

I forgot to link this one, but it's kind of a doozy: https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-

Feb 3

Christine Lemmer-Webber

Feb 3

The Spritely Institute launches a Guile->WASM compilation project!

Due to a generous grant from the MetaMask Grants DAO (thank you!!!), Spritely Networked Communities

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The Spritely Institute launches a Guile->WASM compilation project!

Due to a generous grant from the MetaMask Grants DAO (thank you!!!), Spritely Networked Communities

Feb 3

Christine Lemmer-Webber, … Jessica Tallon26

Jan 24

NLnet grant bootstraps OCapN protocol standardization effort!

The meeting date has been set: https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn/issues/ 28#issuecomment-1402019760 I

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NLnet grant bootstraps OCapN protocol standardization effort!

The meeting date has been set: https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn/issues/ 28#issuecomment-1402019760 I

Jan 24

Charlie Landau, … Jonathan S. Shapiro9

Jan 14

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:41 AM William ML Leslie <william.l...@gmail.com> wrote: I'd

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:41 AM William ML Leslie <william.l...@gmail.com> wrote: I'd

Jan 14

Jan 12

Fwd: News about our colleague Carl Hewitt

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Henry Lieberman <he...@csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu,

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Fwd: News about our colleague Carl Hewitt

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Henry Lieberman <he...@csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu,

Jan 12

Alan Karp, … Ben Laurie22

12/28/22

Question about a capability pattern

On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 17:17, Alan Karp <alan...@gmail.com> wrote: Keynote sounds a lot like

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Question about a capability pattern

On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 17:17, Alan Karp <alan...@gmail.com> wrote: Keynote sounds a lot like

12/28/22

William ML Leslie, Alan Karp3

12/14/22

Rambling, content-free update #0

On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 at 10:57, Alan Karp <alan...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for sending this.

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Rambling, content-free update #0

On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 at 10:57, Alan Karp <alan...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for sending this.

12/14/22

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