Tag
delegation
- Jul 4, 2026 Constrained Delegation and Token Exchange in OAuth 2.0 How the token exchange grant carries a subject through a chain of services, what scopes and audience restrict, and why impersonation and delegation differ in what the audit log records. security
- Jul 30, 2025 Object Capabilities and the Confused Deputy How unforgeable references replace identity checks, why ambient authority enables the confused deputy, and what membrane and revocation designs cost in a capability system. security
- Jul 30, 2025 Prototype Chains and Delegation-Based Dispatch How property lookup walks a prototype chain, why methods are stored once per prototype instead of once per object, and where the chain design costs lookup time. programming languages
- Apr 30, 2025 Handing a Transfer to a System Daemon So It Outlives the App Why background uploads and downloads are owned by a system process rather than the app, what the delegate relaunch guarantees, and where the handoff loses data. mobile computing
- Aug 23, 2024 Delegation and Zone Cuts: Where Authority Changes Hands How an NS RRset at a delegation point splits a namespace into zones, why glue records are necessary, and what makes a delegation lame or unreachable. internet protocols
- Mar 5, 2024 DNS Delegation, Glue Records, and the Referral Loop How authority for a name is handed down a zone tree, why a child in the same zone as its parent forces address records into the parent, and what breaks when glue is wrong. computing history
- Jul 6, 2023 Delegated Authority: What OAuth's Four Roles Actually Separate Why OAuth replaces password sharing with a scoped, revocable token, and how the split between authorization server and resource server makes that possible. internet protocols