📖What it means

A secret that proves who or what is calling — a key, a token, a password. Credentials live in the vault and are handed out, never pasted into code or a record where they would then be everywhere.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Token (model)", "distinction": "An auth credential proves identity; a model token is a unit of text billed by a vendor."}, {"term": "Grant", "distinction": "A credential proves who you are; a grant says what you may do."}]

📖Also called

- secret
- key
- token (auth)

📖Filed under

Category: general.

Service: Security.