| Subject | English | Swahili |
| comp., MS | authentication database | hifadhi data (A database on a server that matches user names to passwords) |
| comp., MS | authentication method | njia ya uhalalishaji (The authentication protocol (such as CHAP, PAP, EAP etc) used when authenticating access to resources on a network) |
| comp., MS | Basic authentication | uhalalishaji msingi (An authentication mechanism that is supported by most browsers, including Internet Explorer, and encodes (but does not encrypt) user name and password data before transmitting it over the network) |
| comp., MS | certificate authentication | uhalalishaji cheti (A form of IIS authentication in which IIS accepts client-certificates used to prove the client's identity. Using this form of authentication, IIS can optionally map a client certificate to a Windows user account by using an internal mapping table or Active Directory) |
| comp., MS | Digest authentication | uhalalishaji wa kijarida (An authentication method that prompts the user for a user name and a password, also called credentials, which are hashed with other data before being transmitted over the network. Digest authentication is available only on domains that have domain controllers that are running Microsoft Windows Server operating systems) |
| comp., MS | distributed password authentication | uhalalishaji mahiri wa nywila (An advanced, distributed method of user authentication from Microsoft, allowing for single user log-on) |
| comp., MS | plaintext authentication | uhalalishaji matinighafi (An authentication mechanism that is supported by most browsers, including Internet Explorer, and encodes (but does not encrypt) user name and password data before transmitting it over the network) |