Identity and authentication are distinct components of the steps necessary to use a secure computer system. Identity without authentication lacks proof; authentication without identity invalidates auditing and eliminates multi-user capability (consider Windows 95/98, which supported a password as an authenticator but no user ID).
Eighty-Second Attorney General, 2009-2015 Eric H. Holder, Jr., was born on January 21, 1951, in the Bronx, New York. He attended public schools, graduating from Stuyvesant High School, where he earned a Regents Scholarship.
Holder is reportedly being vetted to be President-elect Obama's attorney general. By Carol S. Hook, Staff Writer | Nov. 19, 2008, at 2:37 p.m. 1. Eric Holder's father emigrated from Barbados when he was about 12, ending up in Queens, N.Y., where Eric Jr. was born and raised.