From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <01ac01c100e8$905e5b00$6401a8c0@freeze2k>
From: "Matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
References: <20010619171302.3531519A05@mail.cse.psu.edu> <014501c100e6$89bb8310$c0b7c6d4@SOMA>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno plug-in security
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:12:19 +0100
Topicbox-Message-UUID: c1998944-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025


----- Original Message -----
From: "Boyd Roberts"
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno plug-in security


> > security consists of (at least?) two parts: authentication (who am i)
and
> > authorization (what can i do).
>
> err well, you have to authenticate the thing you are talking to, so
there's
> another piece that has to be done right.

but what's your overall opinion on how it should be done Boyd?

You've got lots of security experience