[cap-talk] Definition of Authentication on wiki.erights.org

[Rob Meijer]

On Tue, September 8, 2009 17:31, Karp, Alan H wrote:
> Matej Kosik wrote:
>>
>> For me, the term "authentication" was mostly empty so I was willing to
>> fill it with something useful. David-Sarah's definition, now stated
>> here:
>>
>> http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/Authentication
>>
> I think it would be more precise to say
>
> "Given one end of a transmission channel, an authentication procedure
> establishes whose credentials were presented at the other end."

Still sounds way to much like 'identification' to me.

I would suggest:

"Given one end of a transmission channel, a 'subject authentication'
procedure tries to establish the authenticity of credentials presented at
the other end."