---
type: "term"
title: "Credential Application"
description: "The act of presenting, using, replaying, or leveraging a credential to authenticate and operate as an identity other than the presenter's own ."
resource: "tlctc:term:credential-application"
tags:
  - "glossary"
---
# Credential Application

The act of presenting, using, replaying, or leveraging a credential to authenticate and operate as an identity **other than the presenter's own**. So scoped, credential application MUST always map to `#4 Identity Theft`. Authenticating as an identity the target system itself issued to the presenter through a designed enrolment function is authentication as self, not credential application in this sense — see the self-issued proviso under R-CRED.

**Reference:** §4.2.2 (Global Definitions), R-CRED (§4.2.5), Axiom X (§2)
