Hi Kaliya Glad you are not in my class! Seriously though, passwords are identity attributes if one regards every piece of information that is associated with a user as an identity attribute. But they are clearly not identifiers in the general case, as they do not uniquely identify anyone, given that 'password' and '123456789' are two of the most common passwords on the Internet. However, if you have a very strong password then it is possible that it could be an identifier, if you are the only person in the world using that password. regards David On 07/03/2017 04:24, Kaliya Identity Woman wrote:
HI ID Pro's
As those of you know who attended the ID-Pro breakfast at RSA.. I'm in the new Masters of Science in Identity Management and Security at UT Austin.
There have been some challenges in what has been taught... including that the factors of authentication are not that...but "identifying Information" or as in the poster below says "Identity Attributes"
They also have taught that password are identifiers (yes this was actually taught)... in this poster on the other side they are identity attributes..yes identity attributes. Sigh. I have raised issues about these two things that have been taught...and well not gotten very far. (besides being told i'm a "bad student" and "unwilling to learn".
But now they have this fabulous poster. I'm hoping some of you with blogs or twitter handles can point at the poster - references it and explain why both things are wrong. (cause they, specifically Dr. Barber and Dr. Doty don't believe me.
Or maybe this group could write a joint letter explaining its 'wrongness" it snot great that this center is putting out this information...it doesn't help us in the long run get explaining this stuff right.
Here is the post on their site with the poster. https://identity.utexas.edu/infographics/identity-attributes-and-the-identit...
Here is Dr Barbers faculty page - http://www.ece.utexas.edu//people/faculty/suzanne-barber
Dr. Doty's
https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/person_details?PersonID=22
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