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Message-ID: <506df4f5-388a-19b3-1279-fb47082e59e8@bestmx.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:35:49 +0100
From: "e@...tmx.net" <e@...tmx.net>
To: passwords@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Authentication vs identification
On 11/24/17 09:33, Scott Arciszewski wrote:
> That seems half-baked. A good elaboration could turn that into an
> excellent essay or blog post.
those were already written and have received overwhelmingly hostile
response from the "expert" community, some local readers included.
>
> it dawned on me recently, the difference between the two is easy to
> grasp and easy to formulate:
>
> You do want exactly one man to be capable of authentication.
> You do want multiple men to be capable of identification.
>
>
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