Re: Politically correct term for four-eyes authorization?

[Bridget Gordan <bridget -dot- gordan -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Two-person integrity.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Monique Semp <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net>
wrote:

> Possible candidates we found and are
>>
> commonly used are "dual control" and "two-person rule", but these are not
> as accurate, because in every definition I could find (for example,
>
> http://www.theserverside.com/report/Integration-of-User-Control-Mechanisms-into-Secure-Critical-Applications
> ), they refer to two users who have the same privileges to perform an
> action, but can only do so together. In our setup, this is not the case,
> one of the users is who performs the action, and the other approves that.
>
> Not the answer you're looking for, but perhaps related enough that you
> could find the appropriate term: a standard phrase for requiring that a
> certain number of users, out of a bigger pool of authorized users, be
> available to authorize an operation is "M of N".
>
> References: http://www.certiguide.com/secplus/cg_sp_4571MofNControl.htm
> and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_distribution.
>
> I understand that "M of N" is not what you're talking about. But perhaps a
> surf/google along the lines of "authorization methods", "authentication
> methods", "authorization control", or "access control" (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control) would uncover the mechanism
> that you're describing.
>
>
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