[3555] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: authentication vs authentification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth E. Rowe)
Fri Nov 15 15:35:07 1996
From: "Kenneth E. Rowe" <kerowe@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 09:17:39 -0600
In-Reply-To: "mark.e.von.weihe" <mark.e.von.weihe@ac.com>
"authentication vs authentification" (Nov 14, 8:15am)
Reply-To: "Kenneth E. Rowe" <kerowe@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: "mark.e.von.weihe" <mark.e.von.weihe@ac.com>,
www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
I've never run across the word before.
My guess is that it is one of two things:
1) a distinction between group authentication and individual (identity)
authentication,
or
2) really meant to be authorization: underpinnings of security are
authentication and authorization.
Actually ---
I just did a lycos search (www.lycos.com) on authentification.
It appears to be the French word for authentication.
Ken.
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