Safety & Security

Capability-Based Security

An access-control approach in which possession of an unforgeable reference grants specified operations on a particular object. A capability is authority, not just a descriptive tool name. Its creation, delegation, attenuation and revocation require a deliberate design; implementations differ in what they support.

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