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Mutual authentication

Mutual authentication or two-way authentication is the simultaneous and reciprocal authentication of two parties. It is part of authentication protocols, default in some protocols (IKE, SSH) and optional in others (TLS).

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Process steps and verification

Defenses

MTLS

Lightweight schemes vs. secured schemes

Password-based schemes

Certificate based schemes and system applications

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Mutual authentication

Nodes58
Edges57
Triples68
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.034483
Components1

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Mutual authentication

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related to Process steps and verification · 13
Mutual authentication → Alice, Alice's, Alice's ID, At, Bob, Bob's, Bob's ID, IDs, If, If Alice, Lastly, Schemes, The
related to Cloud based computing · 10
Mutual authentication → An, Blockchain, Clouds, Due, Fog-cloud, Healthcare, MEC, Mobile, Telecare Medical Information Systems, TMIS
has application · 9
Mutual authentication → As, Authentication, Instead, Internet, Internet's, IoT, IP, Mutual, Things
related to Password-based schemes · 9
Mutual authentication → However, In, One, OTP, OTPs, Researchers, SMS, User-made, While
related to Lightweight schemes vs. secured schemes · 6
Mutual authentication → Even, Many, One, This, Thus, While
related to Machine to machine verification · 5
Mutual authentication → For, In, Many, Mutual, UAV
related to Multi-factor authentication · 5
Mutual authentication → Biometrics, Due, Recently, Smart, While
related to Radio networks · 5
Mutual authentication → However, Mutual, Radio, RFID, This
is a · 2
Mutual authentication → crucial security step that can defend against many adversarial attacks, desired characteristic in verification schemes that transmit sensitive data
related to Defenses · 1
Mutual authentication → Mutual

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Mutual authenticationis adesired characteristic in verification schemes that transmit sensitive data0.90text
Mutual authenticationis acrucial security step that can defend against many adversarial attacks0.90text
Daprinstance ofand security requirements are usually much higher as compared to consumer environments.mTLS is also used in microservices-based applications based on runtimes0.80text
via systems like SPIFFEinstance ofand security requirements are usually much higher as compared to consumer environments.mTLS is also used in microservices-based applications based on runtimes0.80text
Mutual authenticationhas applicationMutual0.60section
Mutual authenticationhas applicationInternet0.60section
Mutual authenticationhas applicationThings0.60section
Mutual authenticationhas applicationIoT0.60section
Mutual authenticationhas applicationIP0.60section
Mutual authenticationhas applicationAuthentication0.60section
Mutual authenticationhas applicationAs0.60section
Mutual authenticationhas applicationInternet's0.60section

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