# Authentication

`kaal:entity:authentication`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `authentication`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2025.

**2018**

- [3266953-004](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-004) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- The trust humans place in machines on the internet has never been verified, because neither centralized nor decentralized authentication engines have typically confirmed that trust or otherwise enabled a trusting environment for internet based transactions.
  > Yet no centralized or decentralized authentication engine has typically verified the trust humans place in machines or otherwise enabled a trusting environment for internet-based transactions.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

**2025**

- [5886342-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886342-013) [definitional/asserted] -- A signature under the Codex is defined functionally as the technical proof of the link between an identifier and a piece of digital information, not as a handwritten or format specific formality.
  > (1) The Signature is the technical proof between the Identifier and any Digital Information.
  Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342

## Verify

Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/authentication.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.