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Mutual Authentication

nounid 3315·updated May 9, 2026
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The process of both entities involved in a transaction verifying each other. See bidirectional authentication .

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems1 citation · 1 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.01.16.d ¶ 1

Classifications

Entity Type

Process100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Mutual Authentications
possessive
Mutual Authentication's
pluralpossessive
Mutual Authentications'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
Occurs when parties at both ends of a communication activity authenticate each other.
NIST SP 800-321 senseview framework →
§1
Occurs when parties at both ends of a communication activity authenticate each other.
NIST SP 800-172r31 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
The process of both entities involved in a transaction verifying each other. See bidirectional authentication .
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_pack_match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Occurs when parties at both ends of a communication activity authenticate each other.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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