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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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Bibliography
Conferences
Security and information systems conference https://www.lesassisesdelasecurite.com/
SSTIC – Symposium on information and communications technology security https://www.sstic.org/2017/news/
Standards and norms
- Cartes d'identification. Cartes à circuit(s) intégré(s) à contacts. Partie 1 : caractéristiques physiques - ISO/CEI 7816-1 - 1998
- Identification cards. Integrated circuit cards. Part 2: contact cards – Contact dimensions and locations - ISO/CEI 7816-2 - 2007
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ANSSI – Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (French national agency for information systems security)
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