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📝 To confirm officially 💻 To prove digitally
to attest

to attest

1 7.9
To provide digital proof that a device or system is genuine so others can check it remotely
  • verb
  • /əˈtɛst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : certificar
  • On a superficial level, the fact that its entire cast is returning intact attests to that.

Examples

  • This is the primary reason most adults return to college, as many of the students we've featured on our blog have attested.

    Blog text (15)

  • It would be interesting to know what he attested to in his security clearance declarations.

    Blog text (10)

  • I can attest that she does answer her e-mail around midnight.

    Blog text (11)

  • Remember the CARES Act allows you to self attest, which a test just means state no documentation is required.

  • And as I can attest from personal experience, everybody who posts lots of stuff on the internet is going to make some mistakes.

    Blog text (11)

  • The cavalry types described are historically accurate and attested to for this period.

    Blog text (15)

  • The flooding of Afar is not a hypothesis but a well-attested event, as described by Paul Mohr (1978).

    Academic text (1995)

  • Neither of these is compatible with shamanism historically attested (Hamayon 1994:88).

    Academic text (1996)

  • Sometime after A.D. 200, the once-thriving Nok population declined, as attested to by a sharp drop in the volume of pottery and terracotta in soil layers corresponding to those years.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The report must attest that the device meets all security standards for remote verification.

Synonyms

to authenticate
vsto attest
  • Specialized
35 6.7

Show that something is real or that a person is who they say they are

uses cryptographic signed measurements for remote verification rather than manual credential checks
to certify
vsto attest
  • Formal
3 3.8

To give formal proof that something is true

produces cryptographic proof for remote verification rather than general formal statements

Antonyms

to falsify
12 7.2

To show that an idea or claim is not true

How Certain

to prove
∞ 3.1
to certify
  • Formal
192 3.9
to attest
  • Specialized
1 7.9
to verify
251 3.5
to report
∞ 1.6

Surface Forms

attest infinitive
attested past
attested past participle
attesting present participle
attests third person singular

Morphology

attest = test (opaque) = at + test

Formally related to the general sense of confirming or providing evidence, but the specialised cryptographic/computing sense is an extended technical use and not directly derivable by a typical learner from 'test'.

Etymology

Attest in modern tech keeps the old idea of a 'witness': it means to give proof, often as a signed or recorded message from a device. So to attest in computing is to provide a digital 'witness' that others can check to be sure something is true.