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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...
- 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...
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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...
- Multi-factor
authentication (MFA; two-factor
authentication, or 2FA) is an
electronic authentication method in
which a user is
granted access to a website...
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Single sign-on (SSO) is an
authentication scheme that
allows a user to log in with a
single ID to any of
several related, yet independent,
software systems...
- SMTP
Authentication,
often abbreviated SMTP AUTH, is an
extension of the
Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
whereby a
client may log in
using any authentication...
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themselves as a man in the middle. As it aims to cir****vent
mutual authentication, a MITM
attack can
succeed only when the
attacker impersonates each...
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Authenticated Encryption (AE) is an
encryption scheme which simultaneously ****ures the data
confidentiality (also
known as privacy: the
encrypted message...
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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...
