what does authenticated mean
For other uses of the terms authentic and authenticity, see Authenticity. Authentication (from Greek: Î±á½Î¸ÎµÎ½ÏÎ¹ÎºÏÏ authentikos, real, genuine, from Î±á½Î¸Î­Î½ÏÎ·Ï authentes, author) is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a single piece of data (a datum) claimed true by an entity.