Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH) is an industry-wide collaboration to develop an open

reference architecture A reference architecture in the field of software architecture or enterprise architecture provides a template solution for an architecture for a particular domain. It also provides a common vocabulary with which to discuss implementations, often wi ...

using open standards to promote the adoption of

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. It has close to thirty coordinating and contributing members and is proposing standards for a variety of authentication technologies, with the aim of lowering costs and simplifying their functions.

Terminology

The name ''OATH'' is an acronym from the phrase "open authentication", and is pronounced as the English word "oath". OATH is not related to

OAuth OAuth (short for "Open Authorization") is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords. T ...

, an open standard for

authorization Authorization or authorisation (see spelling differences) is the function of specifying access rights/privileges to resources, which is related to general information security and computer security, and to access control in particular. More fo ...

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List of OATH membersOATH Specifications
Computer security organizations Computer access control {{crypto-stub

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