A Guide To Capabilities

This is a guide to capabilities written for the general programmer, using Scala.

• Introducing Capabilities
• Constructing Capabilities
• Authorizing Capabilities
• Managing Capabilities
• Confining Capabilities

Further Reading

• Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control
• Bringing Object-orientation to Security Programming
• Capability Myths Demolished
• What are Capabilities
• Capability Based Security
• Capability Patterns