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Foil 25 Authentication

From Full Description of WebFlow and Friends for Education and Science Portals NCSA Portal/Metadata Meeting -- October 22-23 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Haupt
A principal is authenticated once by ORB and given a set of credentials, including one or more roles, privileges, and an authenticated ID.
An authenticated ID is automatically propagated by a secure ORB; it is part of the caller context
Principal
Credentials
Current
Client
Server
set_credentials
get_attributes
authenticate

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