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Re: Rant on Capability Security [LONG]

To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: Rant on Capability Security [LONG]
From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 16:35:08 -0400
Cc: Bill Frantz <frantz@communities.com>, jar@ornl.gov, spki@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199704182231.SAA19793@jekyll.piermont.com>
References: <Your message of "Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:56:00 PDT." <3.0.32.19970418145557.006c0b70@homer.communities.com>
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At 06:31 PM 4/18/97 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>I will point out that Matt Blaze was making repeated points at our
>meeting in Memphis about assuring that we don't stumble down paths
>that would make proofs of the properties of a certificate hard.
>
>I suspect that we will likely end up having to go through a pass of
>eliminating unneeded features that do things like making it difficult
>to reason about security relationships or which make the system too
>hard to implement.

We should definitely do that pass at the end -- and continue to examine 
later -- but I have been conscious of this need all along and believe we 
should all keep these in mind.

 - Carl


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