authentication definition

authentication

General: Verification of the genuineness of a document or signature, to make it effective or valid. It usually takes the form of a sealed or stamped certificate that confirms the authority of a public official (such as judge or a notary public) or of a signatory.

Electronic-commerce: Measure employed to ensure that the entity requesting access to an online system is what or who it claims to be, and to counter (by using passwords, authentication certificate, or other identification devices or procedures) any inappropriate or unauthorized access.

authentication is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law, Data Management, Communications, & Networks and E-Commerce subjects.

authentication appears in the definitions of the following terms: hologram, Open Financial Exchange (OPX), Remote Authentication Dial In Service (RADIUS), password authentication protocol (PAP), legalization, apostille, asymmetric key cryptography (AKC), public key infrastructure (PKI), primary account number (PAN), sign and

authentication appears in the other terms: authentication certificate, authentication key, challenge-handshake authentication protocol (CHAP), biometric authentication

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