Comment on Authentication for external sevices
tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago“authentication is not security,” can you elaborate on that?
Your statement doesn’t really overlap with my understanding of security, as “just access” seems critically relevant to how secure user data is, for example. Am I missing something?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Authentication is simply identifying a user.
Authorization is securing access to assets.
You can find a lot of reading about this if the distinction is confusing.
tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Right, thanks.