Authenticated vs Authenticates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between authenticated and authenticates

is that authenticated is while authenticates is (authenticate).

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(Webster 1913)

(en-verb)

To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.

To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.