Re: The value of peer in AuthenticationPermission

Bob Scheifler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.jini
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I'm wondering how important it is to specify the peer in the
> AuthenticationPermission you grant to a protection domain when making
> remote calls, or especially what kind of harm can arise from not
> specifying them (complete wildcarding of the peers).

The limit of your question is how important is it to grant less
than AllPermission.  There's no absolute answer; it depends on
whether you trust the code/issuing party to not exercise permissions
it shouldn't be using, and what damage you're willing to accept if
that trust is violated.

- Bob

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