[cap-talk] mailkey: Is this broken ?? Identity key access?

[Karp, Alan H]

David Hopwood wrote:
> 
> This problem is easily solved: just consider instances of
> applications to be principals, as well as users. Then a typical
> delegation chain (e.g. appearing in a log) will look like
> "Alice -> app1 -> Bob -> app2", where Alice used her "app1"
> to delegate to Bob, and Bob used his "app2" to access the
> delegated object.
> 
But Carol has to know about each such account before the application can
use her objects.

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