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Re: Some SACRED blasphemy
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% SACRED persons, I hope that I may be forgiven a minor blasphemy ....
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% Both the SACRED requirements document and the SACRED framework document make reference to
% "entities" that use credentials. In reading through the documents though, they seem to be
% making the assumption that an entity is a "user" who wants to make the credentials
% that are available to her in the context of some device environment, also available to
% her in a different device environment.
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And I always thought that processes create/consume credentials, not people or devices.
People generate (seeds/salt/tokens/secrets) and processes in devices work on that input to
generate/store/move/display/consume the results, which I think of as credentials.
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--bill