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Authentication and Authorization

2004-03-11 09:41:04

Gentlemen, 

instead of proposing funny words meeting anyone's personal 
taste it would be better to use the words as they 
are already defined and known.


E.g. Menezes, Oorschot, Vanstone, Handbook of 
Applied Cryptography, p. 3: 




entity authentication of identification

       corroboration of the identity of an entity (e.g., a person, 
       a computer terminal, a credit card, etc.)



authorization

       conveyance, to another entity, of official sanction to do or 
       be something


validation
        
        a means to provide timeliness of authorization to use or 
        manipulate information or resources


access control

       restricting access to resources to privileged entities




regards
Hadmut


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