4.1.28 Which instance manages the contexts?

 

Jonathan Biggar

(July, 1998) : Both sides. The client initially requests the setup of a context, but I believe that either side can invalidate the context.

Nick Battle

(July, 1998) : The "interceptors" are responsible for managing the contexts once they have been created. The SecurityContext object has operations to protect messages in the context, and could in practice do some of the management of the context when messages are sent/received (ie. it will notice that the context has expired when it tried to encrypt a message, and can arrange for the interceptors to try to re-form a new context first).