Re: Outreach via wikipedia articles on authentication and authorization

Not that this isn't a fascinating line of discussion, but I think we've
wandered away from Mike's original question and my objection (which I
didn't see a great answer for; did I miss something)?

-- Dirk


On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Karp, Alan H <[email protected]> wrote:

> Your example is relatively simple if Irene starts with references to Bob
> and Carol.  (Alice is on vacation.)  Irene introduces Bob to Carol by
> giving Bob a facet to Carol that returns and identifier that Irene can
> associate with Carol but Bob cannot.  Should Irene wish to introduce Carol
> to Alice, who is now back from vacation, Irene can give Alice a different
> facet.  If the facets given to Alice and Bob return the same identifier,
> then they can determine that they point to the same person without being
> able to determine who that person is.  They can't if Irene constructs the
> facets to return different identifiers.
>
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