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Gernot Heiser: Defend Against Cyber Threats | Gaming the Future Chapter 8

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The Importance of Least Authority in SEL4

SEL4 is an object capability operating system. The object capability access control paradigm is one that I've been doing work in for many decades and so have several of the people on this call. There's some good evidence, but we don't know. So our risk that it's imperfect is not zero. If SEL4 had been proven perfectly secure at implementing a bad security paradigm such that it was impossible for application programmers to use it to build practical secure systems, it wouldn't be doing us much good. Fortunately, SEL4 is implementing what as far as we know is the best security paradigms to implement.

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