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Re: Buffer overflow or overrun?


From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:44:07 -0400 (EDT)


"Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark () attbi com> said:

And if there's a difference between
authentication and authentification, I can't tell.

This one's easy. There is no such word, "authentification."

Not in American English, agreed.  I didn't mention this in my post
because it was just a theory at the time, but it seems to be commonly
used by Europeans, and/or people who speak or write English as a
second language, not a native language.

One might expect to see such minor differences in an international
forum.  A search on Google for "authentification" illustrates the
point.

- Steve


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