Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of something or someone, often for security purposes, through some unique characteristic. Although the term has a specific meaning in the context of computer use, authentication is something...

One of the needs of social or business interaction is the authentication of the principals involved in it. Just because a man says his name is John Smith does not mean that he indeed is John Smith; the fact must be proved in other ways. In the real...

Authentication (from Greek αυθεντικός; real or genuine, from authentes; author) is the act of establishing or confirming something (or someone) as authentic, that is, that claims made by or about the thing are true. Authenticating an object...

Ah, the fickle American voter: One campaign will be all about issues; in the next, character is everything. What's a poor presidential candidate to do? They'd do well to wonder, since the current campaign looks plenty fluid. Mixed results in the recent off-year...

For data protection, actions may speak louder than words. Information security researchers at George Washington University are studying new ways to strengthen identification authentication processes while keeping transactions as simple as possible. The techniques involve deliberate perturbations of traditional authentication processes and can...

Traveling to a seaside New England clam shack for fried clams. Listening to jazz in New Orleans. Visiting a small organic coffee farm in Guatemala.These trips would all make for very different summer vacations, but they have something in common: They could all be considered...

If there's a sign of the times in college admissions, it may be this: Steven Roy Goodman, an independent college counselor, tells clients to make a small mistake somewhere in their application _ on purpose."Sometimes it's a typo," he says. "I don't want my students...