[cap-talk] "Who" seen as thorny (was: Defense of Identities, etc.)

[Karp, Alan H]

Jed wrote:
> 
> Is there more to this "who" (identity) issue that I'm 
> missing.  It seems
> to me that private keys can work on a network.  Is the issue you're
> focusing on defining "who" in a pure capability sense?  Or perhaps
> you're still considering the binding of an identity (e.g. a 
> private key)
> to something more meaningful like a person or some sort of trust
> relation.  I believe this later is well understood and not 
> particularly
> challenging, except perhaps conceptually.
> 
I'm using "who" as someone or something to assign responsibility to.
One complicating factore is that one party (user, process, whatever) can
have more than one identity, e.g., private key, and one identity, e.g.
private key, can be shared by many parties.

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