The top level authority of a security identity identifies the agency that created the security identity.
System defined top level authorities may be found in the enumeration authorities.
Three constructors are defined as follows.
authority - pointer | Expects a pointer to an array of six bytes - which it copies. |
authority - Initialize | Copies the individually specified authority bytes. |
authority - copy | Copies the six authority bytes from one instance to another. |
Individual authority bytes may be accessed via:
Apart from the top level authority, at least one relative identity is required. System defined relative identities may be found in the enumerations:
An authority is embedded in a security identity.
For further information about utilizing authorities and identities, see the description for the class identity.