2IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION
When you’re developing security measures, whether they’re specific mechanisms or entire infrastructures, identification and authentication are key concepts. In short, identification makes a claim about what someone or something is, and authentication establishes whether this claim is true. You can see such processes taking place daily in a wide variety of ways.
One common example of an identification and authentication transaction is the use of payment cards that require a personal identification number (PIN). When you swipe the magnetic strip on the card, you’re asserting that you’re the person indicated on ...
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