Credential

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A credential is something that qualifies one entity to do something in another entity. A professional credential is an achievement, aspect of a person's background, authority, competence, personal quality, and/or qualification, typically when used to indicate that this person is suitable for something. A credential could also be a document that a third party issues to a person in order to certify this person's achievement, competence, qualification, etc.


Definitions

According to the CyBOK (version 1),

Credential. An input presented for authentication.

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