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Re: History and definition of the term 'principal'?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean W. Smith)
Wed Apr 26 15:28:09 2006
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From: "Sean W. Smith" <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:18:40 -0400
To: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de>
I like the definition in Kaufman-Perlman-Speciner:
"A completely generic term used by the security community to include
both people and computer systems. Coined because it is more
dignified than 'thingy' and because 'object' and 'entity' (which also
means thingy) were already overused."
--Sean
Sean W. Smith, Ph.D. sws@cs.dartmouth.edu www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/
Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA
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