Glossary
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Glossary
A
Authentication
The process of determining the identity of a user attempting to access a system and the process
of verifying that a particular name really belongs to a particular entity.
Asynchronous
A method of transmitting data which allows characters to be sent at irregular intervals.
B
Baud Rate
Baud Rate refers to the number of bits per second (Bps) that are transmitted between your
network device and modem or ISDN TA.
Blocked Cipher
Cipher that encrypts data in blocks of a fixed size: DES, IDEA, and SKIPJACK are block ciphers.
C
Client
A computing entity in a network that seeks service from other entities on the network. Client
software generally resides on personal workstations and is used to contact network servers to
retrieve information and perform other actives.
D
Data Encryption Standard (DES)
Block cipher that is widely used in commercial systems. It is a Federal standard so it is deemed
acceptable by many financial institutions.
Data Key
Crypto key that encrypts data as opposed to a key that encrypts other keys. Also called a session
key.
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
A protocol that was made to lessen the administrative burden of having to manually configure
TCP/IP Hosts on a network. DHCP makes it possible for every computer on a network to extract
its IP information from a DHCP server instead of having to be manually configured on each
network computer. The DHCP server built-in to your RouteFinder allows every computer on your
network to automatically extract IP information from the RouteFinder.
Why is it called Dynamic?
Each time a network client turns on their computer your RouteFinder DHCP server will
automatically give them an IP address from the IP address pool configured in the DHCP
Configuration dialog box in RouteFinder Web browser management interface. It is called Dynamic
because the address that is issued could be different each time a computer connects to the
network.
DNS (DomainNameSystem)
A DNS Server can be thought of as the computer at your ISP whose job is to take all the URLs
that you type into your web browser and translate them to their corresponding IP address. To use
this the DNS translator, you need to know the IP address of your ISP’s DNS Server.
Domain Name
The textual name assigned to a host on the Internet. The Domain Name Service (DNS) protocol
translates between domain names and numerical IP addresses.
