[3541] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: authentication vs authentification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lester Waters)
Thu Nov 14 15:22:07 1996
From: Lester Waters <lesterw@microsoft.com>
To: "'www-security'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>,
"'mark.e.von.weihe'"
<mark.e.von.weihe@ac.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:16:21 -0800
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Sounds like a term made up by some marketing person...
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>From: mark.e.von.weihe[SMTP:mark.e.von.weihe@ac.com]
>Sent: Thursday, November 14, 1996 12:15 AM
>To: www-security
>Subject: authentication vs authentification
>
>My site is currently doing basic authentication. I'm investigating new
>schemes
>and just came upon a company that offers "solutions for encryption,
>authentication, and authentification." Where's this -f- coming from? I've
>searched for a definition, but they seem to be used interchangeably;
>frequently
>in non-English language sites. Can someone clear this up?
>
