Credentials vs. Identity; Authentication vs.... what?

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

[EDIT: added some sketch]

In short: I briefly discuss some differences between the password based authentication model and the token based one; then I propose that we lack a proper term for describing some of the transactions enabled by cardspace and the token based model.

Sometime we get so used to the metaphors used in computer science, that they cease to be metaphors. When I use my Windows' desktop I certainly don't think of my physical desk (though they are messy in a very similar fashion), nor I think of real folders when I design the directory structur