[3549] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: authentication vs authentification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roberto Galoppini)
Fri Nov 15 08:16:02 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:03:40 +0100
From: Roberto Galoppini <rgaloppini@tim.it>
Reply-To: rgaloppini@tim.it
To: "'mark.e.von.weihe'" <mark.e.von.weihe@ac.com>
CC: "'www-security'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
mark.e.von.weih wrote:
>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?
So far I never heard that word, it sounds like auth + identification,
but to "identify" somebody the only way is biometry (is it spelled right
?) and I'm not sure they meant that.
Roberto Galoppini
rgaloppini@tim.it
"Speak, friend, and enter"
