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This page provides an overview of 5 articles related to 'authentication', listing most recently updated content first. Note that filters may be applied to display a sub-set of articles in this category (see FAQs on filtering for usage tips). Select this link to remove all filters.

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Authentication is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity. This might involve confirming the identity of a person, tracing the origins of an artifact, ensuring that a product is what its packaging and labeling claims to be, or assuring that a computer program is a trusted one. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Authentication)

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Metadata related to 'authentication' (as derived from all content tagged with this term):

  • Number of articles referring to 'authentication': 173 (10.1% of published articles)
  • Total references to 'authentication' across all Ariadne articles: 417
  • Average number of references to 'authentication' per Ariadne article: 2.41
  • Earliest Ariadne article referring to 'authentication': 1996-03
  • Trending factor of 'authentication': 96 (see FAQs on monitoring of trends)

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Top authors

Ariadne contributors most frequently referring to 'authentication':

  1. andy powell (see articles on this topic by this author)
  2. jon knight (see articles on this topic by this author)
  3. ruth jenkins (see articles on this topic by this author)
  4. lorcan dempsey (see articles on this topic by this author)
  5. francisco pinto (see articles on this topic by this author)

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Title Article summary Date

Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System

Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system.

July 2012, issue69, tooled up

ACORN Implemented

Jon Knight and Richard Goodman describe the technical implementation of the ACORN system.

July 1997, issue10, project update

Securing HTML FORMs

Jon Knight discusses some of the options available to the designers and implementors of HTML FORMs for providing authentication of users in a library environment.

September 1996, issue5, tooled up

From the Trenches: Networking (Notworking?) CD-ROMS

Jon Knight on the perils and problems of networking CD ROMs.

May 1996, issue3, tooled up

From the Trenches: Network Services on a Shoestring

Jon Knight describes how Linux is a cheap and useful operating system for library systems units and the like.

March 1996, issue2, tooled up

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