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Named, not delivered. The piece would be the door every transfer, swap or signature passes through first: least privilege, separation of privilege, and authority passed as a capability, returning commit, defer or abstain with the remaining budget. Today the harness serves the door to the engine.
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What exists today
What it does not claim
Sources
- Jerome H. Saltzer and Michael D. Schroeder (1975) The Protection of Information in Computer Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 1278-1308. read in part Used for least privilege and separation of privilege.
- Mark S. Miller (2006) Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control. PhD dissertation, Johns Hopkins University. read in part Used for object capabilities: authority passed as a reference, never assumed.