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Mutual authentication and secure multiparty computation

Mutual authentication and secure multiparty computation

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Mutual authentication and secure multiparty computation

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- Mutual authentication is a security process where both parties, client and server, for example, or they could be, let's say, distributed databases in the communication, verify each other's identity before establishing a connection. This ensures that both the client and the server are who they claim to be and it provides a higher level of security compared to just a one-way authentication, for example, only client side or only server side. Some common examples of mutual authentication would be MTLS or Transport Layer Security, where both the client and the server present their own X.509 v3 digital certificates to each other, verifying their identities before they establish a secure connection. Public key infrastructure utilizing digital certificates and certificate authorities to authenticate both parties in a communication. Secure shell, specifically version two, often used by developers to connect to servers. Secure Shell version two can store the server's signature and warn the…

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