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Re: History and definition of the term 'principal'?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hadmut Danisch)
Wed Apr 26 15:48:46 2006
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From: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:33:10 +0200
To: "Sean W. Smith" <sws@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Hi,
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:18:40PM -0400, Sean W. Smith wrote:
> 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."
Many thanks for the hint. :-)
Are there different editions of Kaufman-Perlman-Speciner ?
My edition of 1995 has two entries for principal in the index:
- Page 129: "A principal is anything or anyone participating
in cryptographically protected communication."
- Page 266: "each user and each resource that will be using
Kerberos."
Which edition is yours?
regards
Hadmut
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