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re. name cert meaning

To: Bryan Ford <baford@sleepless.com>
Subject: re. name cert meaning
From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:07:17 -0500
Cc: fredette@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Matt Fredette), spki@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199801252046.NAA00879@moon.sleepless.com>
References: <Your message of "Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:51:27 EST." <199801232351.AA02853@magpie.lcs.mit.edu>
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At 01:46 PM 1/25/98 -0700, Bryan Ford wrote:
>Basically, as Curtis said, a name cert is really just a statement
>that "principal Y is hereby authorized to use name X in my namespace."

to nit pick:

I believe the SDSI name is better defined as "X is a label by which I (the 
issuer) refer to principal Y (or some set of principals $Y_i$)".


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