olemus
autentimine, mille puhul parool saadetakse avatekstina, näiteks LDAP-serverile
= authentication allowing clients to send passwords to the server as cleartext, without hashing or encryption

näiteid
http://support.ricoh.com/bb_v1oi/pub_e/oi_view/0001064/0001064143/view/security/int/0035.htm