March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
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Authentication
Authentication provides assurance about the identity of an entity or the validity of a message.
There are two types of authentication mechanisms, namely entity authentication and data origin authentication, which are discussed in the following section.