[saga-rg] security info in streams...

[John Shalf]

On Jun 23, 2005, at 8:48 AM, 'Andre Merzky' wrote:
> Quoting [Hartmut Kaiser] (Jun 23 2005):
>>> My only concern (a minor concern) is that the underlying
>>> security information is actually different than the kind of
>>> information that is stored locally.  (eg. its going to be a
>>> credential rather than a public/private key pair).  So the
>>> way that we interact with the two kinds of security contexts
>>> is compatible (its reasonably represented as a list of
>>> key-value pairs), but the underlying object or information
>>> may in fact be different.
>>
>> Sorry for a possibly dumb question: Isn't this reflected in the 
>> contextType
>> enum already?
>
> My thought as well - that is at least the intent of the
> context type thingie.  Do you think that is unsufficient?
>

Sorry,
I didn't read the rest of your email.  (I'm hastily reading email 
during a meeting in Atlanta)
The context type takes care of everything.

-john