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Message-ID: <20171215153219.qfz6yvo7pf4ammtp@schwartzvogel>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 17:32:19 +0200
From: Alex Smirnoff <ark@...ex.net>
To: passwords@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Authentication vs identification
It confuses me as well. Isn't it exactly the opposite? Identification
involves a person, and authentication involves abstract "entity" which
could be non-person, group of people or whatever.
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 09:29:16AM +0100, Eugene Panferov wrote:
> 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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