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the process of establishing the authenticity of a person or other entity. Not to be confused with authorization - defining access rights to resources.

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Why aren't digital signatures the standard way to authenticate web clients?

()-_., and must begin with a letter, and once you change it you can't reuse it"), and unreliable (not to mention centralized) third-party authentication protocols. … Is public key cryptography truly unfit to serve universal identification and authentication on all internet layers? Or is non-cryptographic authentication a market failure? …
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