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Alan Karp
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Matt Rice
13
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
Alan Karp
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
Raoul Duke
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
Alan Karp
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
Tony Arcieri
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
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Mark S. Miller
10
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
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Christine Lemmer-Webber
9
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
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Alan Karp
4
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
Dan Connolly
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
Alan Karp
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
Raoul Duke
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
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Matt Rice
8
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
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Matt Rice
6
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
Alan Karp
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
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Mike Stay
3
Jun 7
A playlist
Maybe some Pony vids? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1JfYa413fY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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A playlist
Maybe some Pony vids? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1JfYa413fY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Jun 7
Alan Karp
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Rob Meijer
13
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
Alan Karp
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
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Mark S. Miller
3
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
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Alan Karp
8
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
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Pierre Thierry
2
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
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Pierre Thierry
6
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
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Jessica Tallon
26
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
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Jonathan S. Shapiro
9
Jan 14
CapROS status
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:41 AM William ML Leslie <william.l...@gmail.com> wrote: I'd
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CapROS status
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:41 AM William ML Leslie <william.l...@gmail.com> wrote: I'd
Jan 14
Mark S. Miller
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
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Ben Laurie
22
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
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Alan Karp
3
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