Edexcel GCSE Computer Science 2020

6.4.4: understand the need for and be able to write programs that implement authentication (ID and password, lookup)

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authenticationchecking that a user is allowed to log in to a computer system
IDunique identification data such as username, number or email
lookupchecking to see if a users ID and password matches a list of approved user details in a database or file
passwordsecret data which can be entered and checked when logging in to a computer system
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