4.4.7 [IMAGE ]What is the "public" security attribute of a principal?

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4.4.7 [IMAGE ]What is the "public" security attribute of a principal?

Bob Blakley: (June 1999)³²:
The "public" attribute is what you get in your credential before you authenticate (i.e. after you've initialized the ORB, which comes up with an "own" credential, but before anything has called PrincipalAuthenticator.