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Named-Data Networking

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Authentication and Authorization

· 8 min read
Xinyu Ma
Research Scientist @ Meta

Authentication (AuthN, 認証) and authorization (AuthZ, 承認) are important pieces in system security. In one word, AuthN verifies the identity of the requester, and AuthZ decides whether a specific operation is allowed.

Service Invocation: A Brief Survey

· 27 min read
Xinyu Ma
Research Scientist @ Meta

Service invocation is tricky. The protocol itself seems to be super simple: we call a function, and it returns. But the problem is, when the function is on another machine, how we know the state of that machine / the whole system. The developers of the caller do not want to care, so we protocol designers should care for them. But trying to make everyone happy is so tough here.