As an exercise in the application of the concept of least privilege, we have modified the pieces of an ordinary UNIX* mail system, sendmail in particular, to require little or no privilege in their operation.
Whitepaper by OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt, and AT&T researcher, Charles D. Cranor, describing the development and concepts of the Anonymous CVS source file distribution mechanism.
This paper investigates performance issues for distributed object systems. Claims that object caching is a must for improved performance and scalability in distributed object systems.