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...

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...

'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme. Internet Engineering Task Force. sec. 2.1. doi:10.17487/RFC7617. RFC 7617. The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme. Internet...

Mutual authentication or two-way authentication (not to be confused with two-factor authentication) refers to two parties authenticating each other at...

Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is an authentication framework frequently used in network and internet connections. It is defined in RFC 3748...

services without re-entering authentication factors. It should not be confused with same-sign on (Directory Server Authentication), often accomplished by using...

either keyed-hash message authentication code or hash-based message authentication code) is a specific type of message authentication code (MAC) involving...

Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) is a term associated 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 participants where the participants themselves can be confident...

answer ("response") to be authenticated. The simplest example of a challenge-response protocol is password authentication, where the challenge is asking...

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that provides centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)...

may log in using any authentication mechanism supported by the server. It is mainly used by submission servers, where authentication is mandatory. SMTP...

In information security, message authentication or data origin authentication is a property that a message has not been modified while in transit (data...

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...

Output: ciphertext and authentication tag (message authentication code or MAC). Decryption Input: ciphertext, key, authentication tag, and optionally a...

Kerberos (/ˈkɜːrbərɒs/) is a computer-network authentication protocol that works on the basis of tickets to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure...

build a system of authentication for web-based applications that solves or mitigates the issues of traditional password-based authentication. Zero-knowledge...

HTTP authentication may refer to: Basic access authentication Digest access authentication This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...

the authentication. Major authentication algorithms include passwords, Kerberos, and public key encryption. TACACS+ RADIUS Multi-factor authentication Universal...

Protocol (IP) networks. It supports network-level peer authentication, data origin authentication, data integrity, data confidentiality (encryption), and...

Internet Authentication Service (IAS) is a component of Windows Server operating systems that provides centralized user authentication, authorization...

components: the transport layer provides server authentication, confidentiality, and integrity; the user authentication protocol validates the user to the server;...

Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) is a proprietary wireless LAN authentication method developed by Cisco Systems. Important features...

access authentication and Digest access authentication. 401 semantically means "unauthenticated", the user does not have valid authentication credentials...

Google Authenticator is a software-based authenticator by Google. It implements multi-factor authentication services using the time-based one-time password...

authentication (Hungarian: hiteleshely; Latin: locus credibilis) was a characteristic institution of medieval Hungarian law. Places of authentication...

BSD Authentication, otherwise known as BSD Auth, is an authentication framework and software API employed by OpenBSD and accompanying software such as...