Re: Buffer overflow or overrun?

[Tina Bird <tbird () precision-guesswork com>]

I hate to say this, but if common usage makes a word
acceptable, then there's at least one English-language
security vendor who's lobbying for "authentification":

http://www.authentify.com

I've certainly had a lot of students get confused about
the whole issue, and use "authentification" to combine
both assigning an identifier to a person, and validating
that a person has the right to use a particular identifier.

tbird
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Rafael D'Ávila wrote:

> Authentication in portuguese language is "autenticação"
> in spanish language "autenticación"...
> because this, I can't understand your point of view
> =)
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:44:07 -0400 (EDT)
> "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org> wrote:
>
> > "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