Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Lesson 10: Authentication

Definition
 
Authentication is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it is declared to be. In private and public computer networks (including the Internet), authentication is commonly done through the use of logon passwords. 

The use of digital certificates issued and verified by a Certificate Authority (CA) as part of a public key infrastructure is considered likely to become the standard way to perform authentication on the Internet. Logically, authentication precedes authorization (although they may often seem to be combined).

2 comments:

  1. Can anybody tell me the best example of authentication process? I m blur....please help!

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  2. Remember when you login in facebook, twitter or mail ? if you typed something wrong , you cant get pass the site to see whats new (Mirul)

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