James Carlson wrote:
> Bill Sommerfeld writes:
> > I still don't like the counterproposal.  It's still built around a
> > really horrible idea (potentially using one secret with more than one
> > protocol/algorithm) which I don't want to see copied by other projects.
> > And I don't really think it's either more or less usable than my
> > suggested change.  
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > So I'm torn.
> 
> I'd support either a spec change or a derail-and-TCR that said:
> 
> "The project team must support either only the newest
> authentication method (with a single password), or all methods
> but with independent passwords for each."

I've made a proposal that, I think, will support independent
passwords for each method of authentication.

Alan

> That allows the project team to choose to have a single password if
> they really want (at the expense of dropping support for the broken
> old protocol) or multiple passwords to support any or all of them.
> And it gets the ARC out of the business of trying to figure out which
> authentication protocols are necessary for which market.
> 
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