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SPLASH 2017
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada
Tue 24 Oct 2017 14:30 - 15:00 at Cavendish - Session 2

A capability is a transferrable, unforgeable authorization to use the object it designates. Unforgeability means that knowing the bits associated with a capability cannot be used to gain the permission it grants. A problem arises when we want to access capabilities across machines, because we can only send bits between them. It would seem that someone who comes to know those bits can gain the permission of the capability they represent, making unforgeability impossible in a distributed system. A closer look reveals that is not always the case.

Tue 24 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
Session 2OCAP at Cavendish
13:30
30m
Talk
Capabilities and Effects
OCAP
Aaron Craig ECS, VUW, Alex Potanin Victoria University of Wellington, Lindsay Groves Victoria University of Wellington, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
14:00
30m
Talk
Reference Capabilities for Concurrency & Scalability: an Experience Report
OCAP
Elias Castegren Uppsala University, Tobias Wrigstad Uppsala University
14:30
30m
Talk
Unforgeable Distributed Capabilities
OCAP