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Object-Capability as a Means of Permission and Authority in Software Systems

Software Engineering 2019-07-19 v1 Programming Languages

Abstract

The object-capability model is a security measure that consists in encoding access rights in individual objects to restrict its interactions with other objects. Since its introduction in 2013, different approaches to object-capability have been formalized and implemented. In this paper, we present the object-capability model, and present and discuss the state-of-the-art research in the area. In the end, we conclude, that object capabilities can help in increasing the security of software, although this concept is not widely spread.

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@article{arxiv.1907.07154,
  title  = {Object-Capability as a Means of Permission and Authority in Software Systems},
  author = {Jörn Koepe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.07154},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages, Technical report