[caops-wg] OCSP & Proxy Certs

[Frank Siebenlist]

For those of us mortals who flunked their Latin&Greek:

autochthonous |ôˈtäkθənəs|
adjective
(of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from
migrants or colonists.
• Geology (of a deposit or formation) formed in its present position.
Often contrasted with allochthonous .

Main Entry: au·toch·tho·nous
Pronunciation: o-'täk-th&-n&s
Function: adjective
1 : INDIGENOUS, NATIVE <an autochthonous people>
2 : formed or originating in the place where found <autochthonous rock>
<an autochthonous infection>
- au·toch·tho·nous·ly adverb

(not that this helps very much ;-) )

there is even an "autochthonous.org" (autochthonous.org - Getting back
to where we're from!)

A confused Frank.



Matt Crawford wrote:
>
> On Jan 22, 2006, at 19:12, Mike Helm wrote:
>> Proxy cert characteristics
>> Autochthonous - typically generated on the spot, by the user or
>> a delegated process
>
> A fine word, but not applicable. When a user on host A delegates to B,
> which then authenticates to C, the proxy cert is created at A, stored
> at B and seen at C. The private key is autochthonous, but this is
> generally true of non-proxy private keys as well.
>

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