#authentication

• Authentication — The act of authenticating or validating from a legal or technical point of view; a legal procedure by which a notary or a public official officially recognizes the originality of a deed or document. In computer science, it represents the process of verifying the identity of a user, device, or digital system (through passwords, tokens, or biometric data) to grant access rights to protected resources.
• Authentication — The act of authenticating or its result; a less frequent or archaic lexicographical variant for the process of authentication, representing the formal and legal method through which a written instrument or private document is invested with public authority before a magistrate or a notary public.
• Authentication — The act of authenticating or logging in; a formal, technical, or legal process through which a user's identity or the genuine character of a document is verified and confirmed. In computer systems, it represents the first level of security, structurally followed by authorization, validating that a digital entity is indeed who it claims to be.
• Authentication — An obsolete, rare, or regional lexicographical variant for the term 'autentificare'; the act of officially attesting the originality of a written instrument or private historical document, performed according to old-style administrative or notarial formulas.