Authentication Technology
Seth James Nielson · Apress eBooks · 2023
In this chapter, you will learn about how parties (typically human parties) can be identified to a computer system. This process is called authentication . For identifying a human party, there are three common approaches: something you know (like a password), something you have (like your phone), or something you are (like a fingerprint). Although it is popular to talk about passwords as “weak” and other mechanisms like biometrics as “strong,” every approach has pros and cons, strengths and weaknesses.