Re: Capsicum for Linux?

"Mark S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.capabilities.general
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Nigel Williams
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Via the popular news channels, Google has sponsored a port of Capsicum
> to Linux, details here:
>
> https://github.com/google/capsicum-Linux
>
> http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2013/12/20/2013-capsicum-year-in-review/
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/linux.html
>
> https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/cl-capsicum-discuss/2013-October/msg00004.html
>
> What do cap-talkers think of capsicum generally? lipstick-on-a-pig or
> butterfly from a chrysalis?
>

My view: Important progress towards real-world-deployable ocaps. The legacy
pressure problem has always been our worst, and this is one of the most
promising angles at overcoming it. As an ocap system, it has some
weaknesses, but all of these seem repairable. I'm a fan.



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    Cheers,
    --MarkM

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