[cap-talk] Definition of Authentication on wiki.erights.org

[Matej Kosik]

Rob Meijer wrote:
> 
> I fail to see any concrete difference between subjects and principles in
> that your definition of a principle seems to align with what I would
> consider a subject.

The term `subject' already has one meaning. There is no confusion. For
our context, I have tried to recapture it here:

http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/Subject%2C_object%2C_operation_and_permission

If you run a Linux machine, you are a principal (or in fact several
principals). The processes that run on your behalf are subjects. Files
are objects. There are few principals here but quite many subjects.
-- 
Matej Kosik