On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:14:06PM -0800, John Merrells wrote:
> 
> On 22-Mar-06, at 12:47 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 
> >So, is it safe to say that some of the use cases posted by Robert  
> >amount
> >to saying that
> >
> > - users shouldn't have more than one physical
> >   (smartcard/token/whatever) or logical (username/password)  
> >credential
> 
> I don't think you can mandate 'just one', but I think you can mandate
> choice. Users should have as few or as many as they feel they need.
> As a  real world example think of credit cards. You could have one
> but you probably have a back-up or two.

Agreed, but users shouldn't _have_ to have more than one as a result of
the ad-hoc nature of the systems they use.  I think that is what Robert
was trying to convey, or at least my reading of the particular
requirement I was distilling.

I wouldn't disagree with that...

I suspect users won't mind having multiple tokens, provided that number
is small, as much as having many accounts that require passwords.

Nico
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