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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:

def authentication(self):
        '''
        Retrieve information on the current authentication token
        '''
        url = '%s/authentication' % (self.domain)
        res = self.session.get(url)
        self._check_response(res)
        return res.json()