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authentify

authentify verb: to authenticate.

Verb

authentify (third-person singular simple present authentifies, present participle authentifying, simple past and past participle authentified)

  1. (chiefly non-native speakers' English) To authenticate.
    • Then the device has to "phone" with the infrastructure of the supermarket, and must authentify the owner of the device in order to step forward the reading of the card.2007, Klaus Kornwachs, “Vulnerability of Converging Technologies: The Example of Ubiquitous Computing”, in Gerhard Banse, Armin Grunwald, Imre Hronszky, Gordon Nelson, editors, Assessing Societal...
    • In addition, other certification authorities may also be involved, e.g. to authentify or to certify software agents.2008 October, Daniel Le Métayer, “A Formal Privacy Management Framework”, in Pierpaolo Degano, Joshua Guttman, Fabio Martinelli, editors, Formal Aspects in Security and Trust, Springer, page 164

Forms of authentify

third-person singular presentauthentifies
present participleauthentifying
past participleauthentified
pastauthentified

Questions about authentify

What does authentify mean?
Authentify means to authenticate.
What part of speech is authentify?
Authentify is a verb.
What is the past tense of authentify?
The past tense of authentify is authentified.

Words near authentify in the dictionary

  1. authentics
  2. authentification
  3. authentifications
  4. authentified
  5. authentifies
  6. authentify
  7. authentifying
  8. authentique
  9. authentiquely
  10. authigene
  11. authigenesis

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