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RE: authentication vs authentification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fabien Petitcolas)
Tue Nov 19 08:58:18 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:37:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: Fabien Petitcolas <fapp2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: Lester Waters <lesterw@microsoft.com>
cc: "'www-security'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>,
Fabien Petitcolas <fapp2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-84-MSG-961118183634Z-7276@INET-02-IMC.microsoft.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Lester Waters wrote:
> I've been told that the word "Authentification" is used in France...
You're right. This is the word we use for authentication.
So why so much fuss about "authentification vs authentication"?
Fabien
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Fabien Petitcolas, University of Cambridge, Security Group
Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK, Ph +44 1223 334676, fapp2@cl.cam.ac.uk
