[3591] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: authentication vs authentification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (carson@lehman.com)
Tue Nov 19 20:49:00 1996
From: carson@lehman.com
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:24:10 -0500
To: Fabien Petitcolas <fapp2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Lester Waters <lesterw@microsoft.com>,
"'www-security'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.961119113022.7500B-100000@indigo.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: carson@lehman.com
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
When somebody can cite a dictionary reference for "authentification" I may
stop thinking it's a stupid mangling of the English language. Until then,
I'll keep believing that authentication is what they meant to say, and that
they should brush up on their language skills.
--
Carson Gaspar -- carson@cs.columbia.edu carson@lehman.com
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~carson/home.html
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