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Verification of a login name and password is known as______


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The process of verification of a login name and password is known as authentication. Every person when he logs into an account, page or any website he needs to give a login name and password.

What is authentication?

User authentication is a process that helps to allows a device to verify the identity of a person who connects to a network resource. There are many technologies and applications currently available to a network administrator to authenticate the users.

Example

The Firebox search engine also has its own authentication server.

Message authentication code

In cryptography( A method of protecting and preserving information using certain codes, the message authentication code (MAC), known as a tag, is a tiny piece of information that used to authenticate a message. In simpler words, it can confirm that the message came from the stated sender (its authenticity) and has not been changed.

Cybersecurity

In cybersecurity, authentication is the process of validating and verifying the identity of the registered user before allowing access to the protected resource. The authorization is the process of validating that the authenticated user has been given permission to access the requested resources.


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