Digital Authentication

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Abbreviations / Acronyms / Synonyms:

Electronic Authentication (E-Authentication)

NIST SP 800-63-3

Definitions:

  The process of establishing confidence in user identities presented digitally to a system. In previous editions of SP 800-63, this was referred to asElectronic Authentication.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-63-3

  See Digital Authentication.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-63-3 under Electronic Authentication (E-Authentication)

  The process of establishing confidence in user identities presented digitally to a system. In previous editions of SP 800-63, this was referred to as Electronic Authentication.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-63-3

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