Article | REF: H5535 V2

Authentication methods. Description, uses and stakes

Author: Pascal THONIEL

Publication date: April 10, 2017

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1. Authentication

1.1 Definitions

•Authentication is the security function that consists in providing, on the one hand, and controlling, on the other, proof of the identity of a person, a service, a logical or physical server, a piece of equipment (electrical, electronic, IT), a connected object, the sender of a message or the publisher of a software program.

For personal authentication, the terminology is as follows:

  • to identify oneself is to give/deliver one's identity;

  • Identifying a person means asking for and obtaining his or her identity;

  • authentication consists in providing proof of identity;

  • Authentication consists of verifying...

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