| Subject | English | Icelandic |
| comp., MS | authentication database | sannvottunargrunnur (A database on a server that matches user names to passwords) |
| comp., MS | authentication method | sannvottunaraðferð (The authentication protocol (such as CHAP, PAP, EAP etc) used when authenticating access to resources on a network) |
| comp., MS | Basic authentication | grunnvottun (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 | sannvottun vottorðs (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 | tætt sannvottun (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 | DPA (An advanced, distributed method of user authentication from Microsoft, allowing for single user log-on) |
| comp., MS | flexible authentication | sveigjanleg sannvottun (An authentication process where users in a variety of identity management systems can be authenticated) |
| comp., MS | plaintext authentication | sannvottun með ósniðnum texta (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) |