A note on the confinement problem

Butler Lampson

Communications of the ACM · 1973 · 1.4K citations · 2 references

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Abstract

onfining a program during its execution so that it cannot transmit information to any other program except its caller. A set of examples attempts to stake out the boundaries of the problem. Necessary conditions for a solution are stated and informally justified.

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