History and definition of the term 'principal'?

tmcghan tmcghan at bcpl.net
Wed Apr 26 15:51:57 EDT 2006


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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