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To address these problems, we propose first to introduce a new AuthenticationContext interface to encapsulate the authentication state needed to derive the principal. Initially we expose a single method methods to get the underlying security protocol in use and the client address. 

interface AuthenticationContext {
  String securityProtocol();
  InetAddress clientAddress();
}

There will be two implementations of this interface exposed: SslAuthenticationContext and SaslAuthenticationContext. These expose the respective state needed to derive the Principal.

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