[cap-talk] What we have here is a failure to communicate

[Karp, Alan H]

If you're wondering why we can't make ourselves understood to security practitioners, consider the following definition from page 55 of the December 2008 issue of CACM.

"Authentication: Security measure designed to establish the validity of a transmission, message, or originator or a means of verifying an individual's authority to receive specific categories of information"

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Alan Karp
Principal Scientist
Virus Safe Computing Initiative
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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