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Authentication Deals With The Problem of Determining Whether A User (Or Other Entity) Should Be Allowed Access To A Particular System or Resource
Authentication Deals With The Problem of Determining Whether A User (Or Other Entity) Should Be Allowed Access To A Particular System or Resource
system or resource.
For example, we might only allowa privileged usersuch as an administratorto install software on a system. As a result, we must somehow restrict the actions of authenticated the human, can be authenticated to a machine based on any combination of the following [14]. Something you know Something you have Something you are An ideal password is something that you know, something that a computer can verify that you know, and something nobody else can guess even with access to unlimited computing resources.