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Authentication is one of the issues at the heart of machine security, and there is a great array of authentication types. To begin with, one can classify authentication methods based on who is authenticating to whom, creating a breakdown into machine-to-machine authentication, machine-to-human authentication, human-to-human authentication, and human-to-machine authentication.
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Jakobsson, M. (2013). The Big Picture. In: Mobile Authentication. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4878-5_1
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