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Insufficiency of Popular Mechanisms

This section discusses two popular mechanisms that are often employed to provide security to systems and the reasons why both are limiting to policy flexibility in normal usage. However, each has benefits despite its limitations, and both can be used within Flask in restricted ways that allow some of their benefits without incurring their limitations.



 

Stephen D. Smalley
1999-07-13