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A '''password''' is a common means of validating the authenticity of an user (any entity human or otherwise) within a system by it supplying a piece of information (the password) as credentials. This implies that the user is authentic in that only that it (or possibly a group of them) should have knowledge of the password.
<br>Examples include logons to computer systems such as [e-mail] servers; a spy proving his identity with a code word or using a keypad to unlock a secured door.
<br>Despite the name there is no need (unless a particular system requires it) for passwords to be real words, indeed they are frequently stronger if they are not.
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