About the White Paper:
Authentication is the process of proving one's identity. This is distinct from the assertion of identity (known, reasonably enough, as identification) and from deciding what privileges accrue to that identity (authorization). While all three are important, authentication is the trickiest from the perspective of network security. We are concerned here with two forms of authentication, that of a user to a machine during an initial login sequence and machine-to-machine authentication during operation. Solutions to the first problem are typically categorized as |
