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by mistercow 752 days ago
The wild thing is that they’re apparently from different etymologies. “Authorization” comes from “auctor” in Latin, meaning “leader” or “author”, whereas “authentication” originally comes from the Greek “auto” meaning “self”. There probably was some cross influence that brought them into line though.
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I'm going to call IAM "Classics", with "Latin" for identity and "Greek" for access.