Digital Identity Authorization Authentication - ghdrako/doc_snipets GitHub Wiki
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Digital Identity Authorization Authentication
One of the key purposes of an identity system is to authenticate that the subject is who they claim to be and authorize requests to access a resource.
- subject - in ex. person, organization, software program, machine
- resource - in ex. web page, a piece of data in a database, or even a credit-card transaction
- identity record in ex. account
- authenticate that the subject
- authorize requests to access a resource