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Re: Terminology

daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Mon Mar 14 20:40:54 1988

From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@BITSY.MIT.EDU>
To: miller%erlang.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM
Cc: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, MILLER%erlang.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM
In-Reply-To: Steve Miller's message of 14 Mar 88 14:14 <8803142014.AA04759@decwrl.dec.com>

Half kidding: I have thought that perhaps we should change our terminology thus:

Ticket becomes "T-Pass" and Authenticator becomes "Ticket." For a T-Pass is good
an arbitrary number of times, by one user, for a given time duration. A ticket
is useful only once.

			-Jeff

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