What is the purpose of each part of a MC?
The MCC is a server-side MC Class, which is the common origin of the private-MCs and public-MCs. The MCC contains Alice’s trust policies, methods and other data. Under Alice’s choice, a set of Alice’s data and methods can be transfered to the public-MCs or the private-MCs. The public-MCs are objects, signed by Alice, that define certified multiple authentication channels which will be used by the private-MCs to certify Alice. The public-MCs are metaphors for independent “witnesses”, which will present evidence that Alice’s objects are what she claims them to be in the private-MC. The public-MCs can contain self-contained tests from data supplied by the private-MC (such as a signature), can compare data from the private-MC with data stored in other objects (such as a biometric data file in a secure server) or dynamically acquired from external devices (such as a GPS, a retina scan, etc.), or perform any general operation that compares objects from the private-MC with objects that the pu
