Principal (computer security)
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A principal in computer security is an entity that can be authenticated by a computer system or network. It is referred to as a security principal in Java and Microsoft literature.[1]
Principals can be individual people, computers, services, computational entities such as processes and threads, or any group of such things.[1] They need to be identified and authenticated before they can be assigned rights and privileges over resources in the network. A principal typically has an associated identifier (such as a security identifier) that allows it to be referenced for identification or assignment of properties and permissions.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "What Are Security Principals?", docs.microsoft.com, 19 April 2017.
External links
- RFC 2744 - Generic Security Service API Version 2.
- RFC 5397 - WebDAV Current Principal Extension.
- RFC 4121 - The Kerberos Version 5 Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) Mechanism: Version 2.
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