| Subject | English | French |
| comp., MS | distributed password authentication | Authentification par mot de passe distribué (An advanced, distributed method of user authentication from Microsoft, allowing for single user log-on) |
| comp., MS | password authentication | authentification par mot de passe (The process of verifying the identity of a user, computer, process, or other entity using a combination of a user name and a password as a credential) |
| IT | password authentication scheme | méthode d'authentification à mot de passe |
| comp., MS | Shiva Password Authentication Protocol A two-way, reversible encryption mechanism for authenticating PPP connections employed by Shiva remote access servers | protocole SPAP (Shiva Password Authentication Protocol) |