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128 bit SSL?
128 bit SSL is also referred to as strong SSL security. The 128 bit tells users that the size of...
Authentication Header?
An Internet IPsec protocol, A field that immediately follows the IP header in an IP datagram and...
Authentication Token?
A portable device used for authenticating a user. Authentication tokens operate by...
Authentication?
The act of determining that a message has not been changed since leaving its point of origin....
Authenticator?
A record containing information that can be shown to have been recently generated using the...
Authenticity?
SSL Certificate security must be genuine and verifiable. In SSL Internet security and network...
Authenticode?
A technology that makes it possible to identify who published a piece of software and to verify...
Authorization?
Giving access or other rights to a user, process or program that has been authorized.
CPS (Certification Practice Statement)?
CPS is short for Certification Practice Statement. The CPS is a document published by the...
CRL (Certificate Revocation List)?
CRL is short for Certificate Revocation List. The CRL is a digitally signed data file containing...
CSR (Certificate Signing Request)?
CSR is short for Certificate Signing Request. When applying for a SSL certificate the first stage...
Certificate Revocation List?
A list maintained by the Certificate Authority of all certificates that are revoked, but not...
Certificate?
A file that attests to the identity of an organization or web browser user and is used to verify...
Certification Authority (CA)?
A third party organization which is used to confirm the relationship between a party to the https...
Certification?
The complete assessment of the technical and nontechnical security functions of a system and...
Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)?
An algorithm for producing digital signatures, developed by NIST and the NSA. To sign a message,...
Digital Signature Standard (DSS)?
A National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standard for digital signatures, used to...
Digital Signature?
A digital signature (not to be confused with a digital certificate) is an electronic rather than...
E-Commerce?
Quite simply, the act of selling over the internet. This can either be Business to Business (B2B)...
Encryption?
Encryption is the process of changing data into a form that can be read only by the intended...
Firewall?
A secured system passing and inspecting traffic via an internal trusted secure server network and...
Host headers SSL?
Host headers are used by IIS as a means of serving multiple websites using the same IP address....
IIS (Internet Information Services)?
IIS is short for Internet Information Services and is Microsoft's popular web server...
Password?
A protected/private character string which is applied to authenticate an identity, which gives...
Private Key?
The key that a user keeps secret in asymmetric encryption. It can encrypt or decrypt data for a...
Protocol?
Similar to "protocol" in human communication which involves a previously agreed upon set of rules...
Public Key?
The key that a user allows the world to know in asymmetric encryption. It can encrypt or decrypt...
Root Certificate?
A self signed certificate issued from a root level Certificate Authority (CA).
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)?
SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer. The SSL protocol was developed by Netscape and is...
SSL Accelerator?
Ordinarily the SSL handshake and subsequent encryption of data between a browser and the web...
SSL Key?
The SSL Key, also known as a Private Key, is the secret key associated with your SSL certificate...
SSL Port / https Port?
A port is the "logical connection place" where a browser will connect to a web server. The SSL...
SSL Proxy?
SSL Proxy allows non-SSL aware applications to be secured by SSL. The SSL Proxy will add SSL...
SSL handshake?
The SSL handshake is the term given to the process of the browser and web server setting up a SSL...
Secure Server?
A Web server that utilizes security protocols like SSL to encrypt and decrypt data, messages, and...
Shared SSL & Wildcard SSL?
It is possible for a web hosting company to share a single SSL certificate - this allows the same...
TLS (Transport Layout Security)?
TLS is short for Transport Layer Security. The TLS protocol is designed to one day supersede the...
Verification?
The procedure that contrasts two levels of system explicitation for appropriate...
https?
Browsers can connect to web servers over http and over https. Connecting over https involves you...
