Authentication

•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...