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A multi-factor authenticator issued and proofed to a Subject fulfiling the requirements the SWAMID Identity Assurance Level 2 Profile with additional identity proofing requirements for on-line proofing.

Person-Proofed Multi-Factor with high identity assurance (SWAMID P2MFA-

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A multi-factor authenticator issued and proofed to a Subject fulfiling the requirements the SWAMID Identity Assurance Level 2 Profile with additional identity proofing requirements based on verifying the Subject with defined identity cards or passports.

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The purpose of this subsection is to ensure that credentials can be revoked.


Guidance

Processes for revocation of second factors or full multi-factors should be documented in the IMPS, section 5.4.

5.4.1 The Member Organisation's ability to Revoke Credentials

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The Member Organisation MUST revoke the Subject's ability to use multi-factor authentication according to the SWAMID Person-Proofed Multi-Factor Profile if the Subject's Credentials is known to be compromised or misused.


GuidanceProcesses for revocation of second factors or full multi-factors should be documented in the IMPS, section 5.4.

If a Subject's second factor or full multi-factor has been misused or compromised the multi-factor should be revoked and the Subject should not be able to a create a new one until the Subject is formally informed why the multi-factor was revoked.

If an individual is not longer affiliated with a Home Organisation, i.e. no longer a Subject, all of the Credentials belonging to that should be revoked in order to avoid a situation where only the username and password are inactivated and later re-activated with a second token becoming active without a re-issuing of the second factor.

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If a member organisation's Identity Provider in addition is approved for Person-Proofed Multi-Factor with high identity assurance the Identity Provider is also tagged in the SWAMID metadata with the assurance certification attribute http://www.swamid.se/policy/authentication/swamid-p2mfa-hia.


In accordance with REFEDS MFA Profile: 

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When a Subject performs a multi-factor authentication based on the Person-Proofed Multi-Factor with high identity assurance the Identity Provider MUST add the value http://www.swamid.se/policy/authentication/swamid-p2mfa-hiahi to the attribute eduPersonAssurance of the Subject in order for the Relaying Party to be able to distinguish between the two identity proofing levels of multi-factor authentication.

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