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Decentralized user authentication in a global file system
2003
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
The challenge for user authentication in a global file system is allowing people to grant access to specific users and groups in remote administrative domains, without assuming any kind of pre-existing administrative relationship. The traditional approach to user authentication across administrative domains is for users to prove their identities through a chain of certificates. Certificates allow for general forms of delegation, but they often require more infrastructure than is necessary to
doi:10.1145/1165389.945452
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