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Object Capabilities (ObCap)

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The capability paradigm is about access control. When a system, such as an OS or a website, is presented with a request for a service it provides, it needs to decide if it should actually do what the requestor is asking for.

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The object-capability model was first proposed by Jack Dennis and Earl C. Van Horn in the 1966 paper.

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