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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. Copyright © 2017 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
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+Security Architecture
+=====================
+Communicating
+-------------
+When one compute process needs to communicate to another, it does so with networking.
+
+The service side is always compute process, but the client can be of two types:
+ - People (via browser, or perhaps command line tool)
+ - Compute process talking to another computer process.
+
+Thus, the essential building blocks of any networked system is made up of
+
+
+In larger systems, it is atypical
+
+Communicating *Securely*
+------------------------
+Whenever two processing entities exist that need to communicate securely, it is *essential* that
+ - The communications between the two are encrypted
+ - The identities of the caller and callee are established (authentication)
+ - The caller must be allowed to do what it is asking to do (authorization)
+
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