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Authentication (from Gr****: αὐθεντικός authentikos, "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης authentes, "author") is the act of
proving an ****ertion, such as the...
- An
authenticator is a
means used to
confirm a user's identity, that is, to
perform digital authentication. A
person authenticates to a
computer system...
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authentication tokens only if the
message goes
through its boxes. The most
common cases can be
schematized as follows: The ADMD's MSA
authenticates the...
- In the
context of an HTTP transaction,
basic access authentication is a
method for an HTTP user
agent (e.g. a web browser) to
provide a user name and p****word...
- An
authentication server provides a
network service that
applications use to
authenticate the credentials,
usually account names and p****words, of their...
- Multi-factor
authentication (MFA; two-factor
authentication, or 2FA,
along with
similar terms) is an
electronic authentication method in
which a user...
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unauthorized access to a
system while feigning permission. When each
party authenticates the other, they send each
other a
certificate that only the
other party...
- P****wordless
authentication is an
authentication method in
which a user can log in to a
computer system without the
entering (and
having to remember)...
- Key/Config-
authentication is used to
solve the
problem of
authenticating the keys of a
person (say "person A") that some
other person ("person B") is...
- and
controls that may be used to
authenticate the claimant's identity. In e-
authentication, the
claimant authenticates to a
system or
application over...
