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		Kinrany on Oct 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implemen... There should be a unified theory that all auth can be stacked on top of. Like, a theory of secure communication, that deals with the problem of adding security/reliability/etc. properties to a communication channel.

efitz on Oct 11, 2024 [–]

There is a lot of formal research on both authentication and authorization. IIRC Butler Lampson’s Turing Award was based on work he did in that area: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lampson_1142421.cfm

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