Using Certificates for
Authentication and Identification
•User identification is the process of identifying yourself to a computer.
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•Most computer systems implement user identification with
user names and passwords; the
combination of a user name and password
is sometimes called a login.
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•To help keep track of their login information for
different computers and Web sites,
some people use a program called a password
manager, which stores login information in an encrypted form on their computer.