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indicating a
person or thing's identity,
authentication is the
process of
verifying that identity.
Authentication is
relevant to
multiple fields. In art...
- Multi-factor
authentication (MFA; two-factor
authentication, or 2FA) is an
electronic authentication method in
which a user is
granted access to a website...
- 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...
- 'Basic' HTTP
Authentication Scheme.
Internet Engineering Task Force. sec. 2.1. doi:10.17487/RFC7617. RFC 7617. The 'Basic' HTTP
Authentication Scheme. Internet...
- cryptography, a
message authentication code (MAC),
sometimes known as an
authentication tag, is a
short piece of
information used for
authenticating and integrity-checking...
- July 2011.
Digest access authentication was
originally specified by RFC 2069 (An
Extension to HTTP:
Digest Access Authentication). RFC 2069
specifies roughly...
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Mutual authentication or two-way
authentication (not to be
confused with two-factor
authentication)
refers to two
parties authenticating each
other at...
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Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) is a term ****ociated with
Microsoft products that
refers to the SPNEGO, Kerberos, and
NTLMSSP authentication protocols...
- In cryptography,
deniable authentication refers to
message authentication between a set of parti****nts
where the parti****nts
themselves can be confident...
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Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is an
authentication framework frequently used in
network and
internet connections. It is
defined in RFC 3748...
