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[LG-487] Email based Suggesting scoped by agency#2443

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Why:
Because user messaging is done based on SPs, we want to make
sure we restrict our suggestion of piv/cac use for folks to
those interacting with select SPs and email domains.

How:
Switch from an OR to an AND. Moves some code around.

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**Why**:
Because user messaging is done based on SPs, we want to make
sure we restrict our suggestion of piv/cac use for folks to
those interacting with select SPs *and* email domains.

**How**:
Switch from an OR to an AND. Moves some code around.
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So the change here is that now if I want to use a PIV/CAC to sign into GSA, I have to use my GSA email? (assuming here we live in a world where GSA SPs support PIV/CAC)

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For now. It's a way to indicate that you're part of an organization for which we believe we have the signing certs in-hand to validate your piv/cac cert. Once we add multiple-email support, we'll look at all of the emails on your account to determine this, so you can still use a non-government email address as your main account email, but add your government one to unlock this feature.

We're scoping it so you have to have a supported email address and be interacting with a partner agency/SP so that we can better manage the roll out messaging. The prior PR didn't add the SP scope, so we would have made it available regardless of how the person is interacting with login.gov.

It could be that a non-GSA agency/SP wants to support piv/cac, so if we supported GSA pivs, you'd be able to use a GSA piv with an account that had a GSA email for a non-GSA SP.

We aren't making the list of supported email domains dependent on the SP. We're just keeping a list of supported email domains, and a list of SPs that want to make piv/cac available for any supported email domain.

For this PR, we're working with agencies. There's a future ticket to scope by SP rather than agency.

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Got it

@jgsmith-usds jgsmith-usds merged commit 5f06c5e into master Aug 22, 2018
@jgsmith-usds jgsmith-usds deleted the jgs/lg-487-restrict-by-sp-even-if-good-email branch August 22, 2018 15:06
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