Delegation of Responsabilities
B. Crispo
University of Cambridge, UK
Università di Torino, Italy
Abstract
Delegation is usually seen in security literature as delegation of rights,
where the term delegation is used to refer the process whereby a principal
authorises an agent to act on his behalf, by transfering a set of rights to
the
agent for a specific period of time.
Here we would like to propose an other form of delegation: delegation
of responsibility with the following definition that is slightly
different from the previous one: delegation is used to refer the process whereby a principal
authorises an agent to act on his behalf, by transfering a set of rights to
the
agent for a specific period of time - during which the principal can no
longer excercise these rights.
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This paper has been published in the
Proceedings of the " 1998 Security Protocols International Workshop",
April 17-19, 1998 Cambridge, UK, by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series vol. 1550, pp.118-130.