Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of NewStuff

Timestamp:

Jul 15, 2013 9:50:50 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

faber

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NewStuff

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 == Printing Credentials Using Mnemonic Names Instead of Keyids ==
 
-Internally libabac uses the SHA1 hash of a principal's public key to identify them, but when printing credentials and debugging policy it can be confusing to keep track of the hashes.  The latest release keeps track of mnemonic names for principals within the scope of a Context.  The names can be specified in the common name of an X.509 identity certificate, the {{{mnemonic}}} element of a [http://http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/TIEDCredentials version 1.1 GENI abac credential], or specified on a per-Context basis using the Context's {{{set_nickname}}} method.
+Internally libabac uses the SHA1 hash of a principal's public key to identify them, but when printing credentials and debugging policy it can be confusing to keep track of the hashes.  The latest release keeps track of mnemonic names for principals within the scope of a Context.  The names can be specified in the common name of an X.509 identity certificate, the {{{mnemonic}}} element of a [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/TIEDCredentials version 1.1 GENI abac credential], or specified on a per-Context basis using the Context's {{{set_nickname}}} method.
 
 When printing a role from a credential, the {{{short_string(}}}''context''{{{)}}} method will scan the role for keyids that have mnemonics in that context and return a translated string.  For exmaple: