Quote: access control lists do not work well for distributed systems; need authentication, delegation, extensibility, and customized policies

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there are a number of fundamental reasons that … [Access Control Lists (ACL)] … in a distributed system … some form of authentication has to be performed … Delegation is necessary for scalability of a distributed … [p. 187] Expressibility and Extensibility: … many security policy elements that are not directly … Local trust policy: … [the administrative] entities may have a different trust policy …   Google-1   Google-2

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