Token

Token - Identifier stored as part of a user's security profile.

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Source: Common Sense Advisory, 31 January 2010 08:46:57, http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com/Resources/Glossary/tabid/878/Default.aspx

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Token - In direct-mail sweepstakes packages, a paper piece to be punched out and placed in one of two slots, usually "yes" or "no." It is a means to get involvement on the part of the prospect.

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Source: Postcom, 13 April 2010 09:21:41, http://postcom.org/public/admail_image/glossary.htm

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token - A token (sometimes called a security token) is an object that controls access to a digital asset. Traditionally, this term has been used to describe a hardware authenticator, a small device used in a networked environment to create a one-time password that the owner enters into a login screen along with an ID and a PIN. However, in the context of web services and with the emerging need for devices and processes to authenticate to each other over open networks, the term token has been expanded to include software mechanisms, too.

A token may be an X.509 certificate, that associates an identity to a public key, for example. OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) Technical Committee, which has done a lot of the work on WS Security, has developed standards that deal with structure and usage of various kinds of tokens to support security in XML environments and web services. These include; the Web Services Security Username Token Profile 1.0, and the Web Services Security X.509 Certificate Token Profile.

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Source: RSA, 23 August 2011 08:16:07, http://www.rsa.com/glossary/