Talk:Authorization certificate

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Not much activity here even when I did put delibrate spelling errors like they recomended in the stub tutorial —Zarutian

I couldn't make head nor tail of this addition; can anyone clean it up?

basicly and raughly: Authorization Certificate ~= sign(Kself, "Authorize <Ksubject> to access <resource> [, <resource> [...]]")

resource can be anything you want, from a file path to a password capability to service name.

Kerberos is also an ?good? way to control access in distrubated resources.

— Matt Crypto 08:08, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I see I got caried away a little. That happens ;-)

What I meant that a authorization certificate is like a chitty or statement saying that an x party may access y and z resources.

This chitty or statement is cryptographicly signed with the certificate's issuer's private key.

Another good way to control access to distrubated resources is Kerberos.

Hope this cleans this up a bit

—Zarutian 18:28, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)