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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] authorization schemes (was CORBA)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:39:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010926173932.25052.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

| > ? would be Doug McIlroy and 'The IX Multilevel Secure Operating System'
| > CSTR #163 is available in pieces at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html.
|
| that'd be it.  iirc they added a chunk of bit vectors to just about
| everything and used simple bitwise operations to implement the security
| with a tiny performance hit.

The best part (cf a paper in Usenix Computing Systems) was that they
caught a virus that someone else accidently unleashed.



             reply	other threads:[~2001-09-26 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-26 17:39 Scott Schwartz [this message]
2001-09-26 17:55 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-26 19:15   ` Mike Haertel
2001-09-26 21:57     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-27 11:05   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-09-27 11:34     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-01  9:49       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-01 10:32         ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-01 10:35         ` David Lukes
2001-10-01 14:29           ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-10-02  1:02             ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-02  3:09               ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-10-02  8:14                 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-04  9:11                   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-04  9:28                     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-04 10:28                       ` davel
2001-10-04 10:34                         ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-05  8:43                       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-02  9:05                 ` David Lukes
2001-09-26 17:44 presotto
2001-09-26 17:59 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-27 11:04   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-09-26 18:08 presotto
2001-10-01 11:00 forsyth
2001-10-01 12:16 rob pike
2001-10-08  9:36 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-01 12:24 rob pike
2001-10-01 12:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-02 11:11 forsyth

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