Re: Outreach via wikipedia articles on authentication and authorization

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Karp, Alan H <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rob Meijer wrote:
>
> > transferring accountability with delegation without actually unduly
> > delegating knowledge about identity, that IMO would be absolutely
> amazing.
> > Does this make sense?
>
> I think it does indeed make sense, and I believe you can do it with
> Horton.  Each user is identified by an object that encapsulates a Be and a
> Who.  The Be is an sealer-unsealer equivalent of a private key; a Who, that
> of a public key.  The Horton paper assumed that the Who allowed anyone with
> a reference to it to be able to determine who (pun intended) it was for.
>  There is nothing to say that there can't be a facet of the Who object that
> can obscure that identity information.
>

So that Horton Hears an Almost Who?



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