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RE: History and definition of the term 'principal'?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tmcghan)
Wed Apr 26 21:16:22 2006
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:51:57 -0400
From: tmcghan <tmcghan@bcpl.net>
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from: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/publications.html
<<Perspectives on Financial Cryptography (Revisited)
by Ronald L. Rivest.
Financial Cryptography '06 Conference Keynote. (Update of talk given for
Financial Cryptography '97)>>
PowerPoint presentation excerpt follows:
<<
SDSI's active agents (principals) are keys: specifically, the private keys
that sign statements. We identify a principal with the
corresponding verification (public) key:
( Principal:
( Public-Key:
( RSA-with-MD5:
( E: #03 )
( N: #34FBA341FF73 ) ) )
( Principal-At: "http://abc.def.com/" )
>>
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