[333] in Kerberos
Terminology
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Clifford Neuman)
Mon Mar 14 17:55:04 1988
From: bcn@JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Clifford Neuman)
To: Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: miller%erlang.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM, kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jerome H. Saltzer's message of Mon, 14 Mar 88 17:12:13 EST <8803142212.AA22021@HERACLES.MIT.EDU>
I like the term validator. How about the following:
Ticket: What the client gets back from kerberos. (Thing #1)
Validator: What the client sends to the client along with the
ticket. (Thing #2)
Authenticator: The ticket plus the validator.
I would strongly discourage anyone from changing the meaning or name
of "ticket". Ticket has always been used to describe what the client
got back from kerberos, and nothing else. The only term that has been
confused is authenticator which has been used to mean both the
validator, and the ticket plus the validator.
~ Cliff
