Lex was doing this project as an intern in Alan's group back in
2000. He recently said somewhere that he launched into the project
shortly after having been "Millered", a term referring to having
grokked the writings of Mark S. Miller (see
http://erights.org). The
word is apt, and makes me chuckle.
I would STRONGLY recommend anyone interested in the area to read
Mark's thesis dissertation (
http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/).
It is the most readable dissertation I have ever read, and is
accessible to the non-specialist (like me). It is a comprehensive
and well-structured overview of the field of object-capability
security. You won't think the same about security after your first
Millering.
Josh
On Nov 27, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
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