Authentication (from Greek: αὐθεντικός; real or genuine, from αὐθέντης authentes; author) is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity. This might involve confirming the identity of a person or software program, tracing the origins of an artifact, ensuring that a product is what its packaging and labeling claims to be.
In art, antiques, and anthropology, a common problem is verifying that a person has the said identity ...
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Authentication (from Greek: αὐθεντικός; real or genuine, from αὐθέντης authentes; author) is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity. This might involve confirming the identity of a person or software program, tracing the origins of an artifact, ensuring that a product is what its packaging and labeling claims to be.
In art, antiques, and anthropology, a common problem is verifying that a person has the said identity or a given artifact was produced by a certain person, or was produced in a certain place or period of history.
There are three types of techniques for doing this.
The first type authentication is accepting proof of identity given by a credible person which has evidence on the said identity or on the originator and the object under assessment as his artifact respectively.
The second type authentication is comparing the attributes of the object itself to what is known about objects of that origin. For example, an art expert might look for...
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