[cap-talk] Horton and Introductions

[Jed Donnelley]

At 06:20 PM 4/24/2008, John Carlson wrote:
>I just discovered the Horton website.  If Alice knows both Bob and
>Carol, how does Carol get introduced to Bob, assuming Alice is a
>operatorless computer program, and Bob and Carol are operated by human
>beings?

Dave (some external party) introduces them.  E.g. see the Powerpoint
presentation:

http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/horton/horton-talk.pdf

starting on page 54.  If you're asking what I think you're
asking it's a pretty insightful question.  One that I think
MarkM would be delighted to answer if he had the time.  He
certainly delighted clarifying this aspect of Horton in the
talks we gave at Google and at Usenix HotSec.

At a high level the introduction is much like introducing
key pairs in a web of trust cryptographic system.

>Is there a term for this that I haven't seen people discussing?

Nothing more specific than "introduction" that I know of.

--Jed  http://www.webstart.com/jed-signature.html