authentify

English

Verb

authentify (third-person singular simple present authentifies, present participle authentifying, simple past and past participle authentified)

  1. (chiefly non-native speakers' English) To authenticate.
    • 2007, Klaus Kornwachs, “Vulnerability of Converging Technologies: The Example of Ubiquitous Computing”, in Gerhard Banse, Armin Grunwald, Imre Hronszky, Gordon Nelson, editors, Assessing Societal Implications of Converigng Technological Development‎[1], Edition Sigma, page 59:
      Then the device has to "phone" with the infrastructure of the supermarket, and must authentify the owner of the device in order to step forward the reading of the card.
    • 2008 October, Daniel Le Métayer, “A Formal Privacy Management Framework”, in Pierpaolo Degano, Joshua Guttman, Fabio Martinelli, editors, Formal Aspects in Security and Trust‎[2], Springer, page 164:
      In addition, other certification authorities may also be involved, e.g. to authentify or to certify software agents.
    • 2009, Michael Tanret, “The Texts and the Seals”, in T. Abusch, M.J. Geller, S.M. Maul, F.A.M. Wiggermann, editors, The Seal of the Sanga: On the Old Babylonian sangas of Šamaš of Sippar-Jaḫrūrum and Sippar-Amnānum (Cuneiform Monographs), volume 40, Brill, →ISBN, page 67:
      His seal has been inherited by his grandchildren, who no doubt use it to authentify their right of ownership when they sell family property.
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