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Revision as of 22:19, 12 September 2006
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This is a proposal for a security model for Gecko. The key idea of this proposal is that security checks are performed immediately before doing a possibly-unsafe operation and that the subject principal for any actions is tracked throughout the codebase. Contrast this with the proposal at [[Security:Security_Checks_In_Glue]]. | This is a proposal for a security model for Gecko. The key idea of this proposal is that security checks are performed immediately before doing a possibly-unsafe operation and that the subject principal for any actions is tracked throughout the codebase. Contrast this with the proposal at [[Security:Security_Checks_In_Glue]]. | ||
This proposal does not address Python and other languages, but they are identical to C++ for purposes of this proposal. | |||
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