Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in Authentication.
- Identity Wallet (Digital Identity Wallet, EUDI Wallet)
- A smartphone app that stores digitally signed credentials representing attributes of a person's identity — such as name, date of birth, government-issued ID number, student enrolment, or professional …
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA, 2FA, Two-Factor Authentication, Two-Step Verification)
- An authentication pattern that requires two or more verification factors — something you know (password), have (phone, token), or are (biometric) — to confirm a user's identity. MFA substantially redu…
- Verifiable Credential (VC)
- A cryptographically signed statement about a person, organisation, or object that a relying party can verify without contacting the issuer, following the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model. Verifia…
- eIDAS (electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services, eIDAS 2.0)
- A European Union regulation governing electronic identification and trust services across the single market. The revised eIDAS 2.0 regulation, adopted in 2024, requires each member state to provide a …