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Proving you are who you claim, one password at a time, badly.
means The process of verifying that someone or something is genuinely what it claims to be, usually by checking a password, key, or ID.
from From Greek 'authentikos,' meaning genuine or original, itself tied to 'authentes'—one who acts with authority, or does something with their own hand. It passed through Latin and French before settling into English as 'authentic' by the late medieval period, with 'authentication' following later as the noun for the act of proving that genuineness. The word has always carried this double sense: not just real, but verified as real by someone with the standing to say so.
- vs authorization
- Authentication proves who you are, authorization decides what you can do
- three factors
- something you know, have, or are
- MFA logic
- stacking weak factors to approximate one strong one
- oldest method
- passwords predate computers, used by Roman military sentries