In general do capabilities offer more or less protection


Consider how a system with capabilities as its access control mechanism could deal with Trojan Horses.

A) In general, do capabilities offer more or less protection against Trojan horses than do access control lists? Justify your answer in light of the theoretical equivalence of ACLs and C-Lists

B) Consider now the inheritance of properties of new processes. If the creator controls which capabilities the created process is given initially, how could the creator limit a damage that a Trojan Horse will do?

C) Can capabilities protect against all Trojan Horses? Either show that they can or describe a Trojan horse process that can C-Lists cannot protect against.

 

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