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Delegation of Responsibilities

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Delegation is usually seen [1,5,2,8,10] as delegation of rights, where the term delegation is used to refer the process whereby a principal authorises an agent to act on her behalf, by transferring a set of rights to the agent for a specific period of time.

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  1. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England

    B. Crispo

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Turin, Italy

    B. Crispo

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK

    Bruce Christianson

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, UK

    Bruno Crispo

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Turin, Corso Svizzera 185, I-10149, Turin, Italy

    Bruno Crispo

  4. Harlow Laboratories, Nortel Networks, London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK

    William S. Harbison

  5. Centre for Communications Systems Research, University of Cambridge, 10 Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DS, UK

    Michael Roe

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Crispo, B. (1998). Delegation of Responsibilities. In: Christianson, B., Crispo, B., Harbison, W.S., Roe, M. (eds) Security Protocols. Security Protocols 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49135-X_18

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