Authenticate

Computer security

Authenticate means

• "[t]o verify the identity of a user, user device, or other entity, or the integrity of data stored, transmitted, or otherwise exposed to unauthorized modification in an IS [information system], or to establish the validity of a transmission."

• "[t]o confirm the identity of an entity when that identity is presented."

• "[w]hen a document/handwriting is genuine."

See also

• Authentication
• Authenticated encryption
• Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data
• Authenticated RFID
• Authenticated user
• Authentication code
• Authentication feature
• Authentication information
• Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment
• Authentication key
• Authentication mechanism
• Authentication mode
• Authentication of identity