SRC Technical Note 1998-007

Two Facets of Authentication

Martin Abadi

Authentication can serve both for assigning responsibility and for giving credit. Some authentication protocols are adequate for one purpose but not the other. This paper explains the distinction between responsibility and credit, through several examples, and discusses the role of this distinction in the design and analysis of protocols.

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