What are Credentials also known as identification tokens or authenticators ?

About

Credentials are electronic information that is used to verify an identity.

They are provided by client application (ie user, browser, application) to prove their identity

Credentials are also known as:

• authenticators
• identification token

Credentials can take various forms depending on the authentication protocol and method.

List

• What are Password credentials? Authentication -
• What is an access token?
• Kerberos - (Ticket|Credentials)
• Oauth - Credential
  • What is a Oauth Access Token?
  • OAuth - Resource Owner Password Credentials / Password Credentials Flow
• What is Sender authentication ? (Public Key Authentication based, Certificate-based in Cryptography)

Web

Credentials are:

• HTTP cookies,
• TLS client certificates,
• and authentication entries (for HTTP authentication).

See What are the HTTP Authentication schemes and methods?