[cap-talk] Rsa podcast on Why Identity Doesn't Matter

[Dave Chizmadia - GMail]

Perhaps the most accurate term would be "intrinsically authorized
reference", but I agree that self-authorizing is much catchier and
easy to say.

-DMC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Spiessens" <fred at evoluware.eu>
To: "General discussions concerning capability systems." 
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Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: [cap-talk] Rsa podcast on Why Identity Doesn't Matter


> Hi Marc,
>
> Just a quick remark after listening to the podcast. I think you did
> very well in this short time.
>
>  "let's throw out the authentication" can be confusing. You could
> say : "let's authenticate the key instead of the driver".  Then you
> could contrast the difficulty of preventing physical keys from being
> stolen or forged (by adding electronic key-recognition, using 
> physical
> uncloneable functions, etc), to the ease with which unforgeable 
> steal-
> proof references can be created, delegated (legally copied), and
> authenticated inside  computer systems, ( "Java's object 
> references",
> "proper use of cryptography can extend reference-authentication 
> beyond
> a single system")
>
> I like the term "self authorizing references", an alternative could
> be:  "pre-authorized references" which, in my opinion, reflects more
> the assumption that the receiver easily recognizes the reference's
> authenticity, than the assumption that the reference would need no
> authentication at all.  I admit that "self authorizing references" 
> is
> sexier.
>
> cheers,
>
> Fred.
>
>
>
> Op 9-apr-09, om 19:41 heeft Stiegler, Marc D het volgende 
> geschreven:
>
>> For better and for worse, RSA invited me to do a podcast interview
>> on my upcoming RSA conference presentation Why Identity Doesn't
>> Matter. It is 6 minutes long, you can find it at
>>
>> https://365.rsaconference.com/blogs/podcast_series_rsa_conference_2009/2009/04/09/marc-stiegler-ess-301-why-identity-doesnt-matter
>>
>> I've been afraid to listen to it, actually, suspecting that I was
>> unable to deliver the message in this format in this amount of 
>> time.
>> But it is there, for your entertainment, such as it is.
>>
>> --marcs
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