Watchguard Firebox X1000, Reference Manual

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CHAPTER 9: Glossary
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peripherals
Equipment such as disk drives, CD-ROM drives, modems, and
printers that are connected to a computer.
permission
Authorization to perform an action.
PGP
See Pretty Good Privacy .
PGP/MIME
An IETF standard (RFC 2015) that provides privacy and
authentication using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
(MIME) security content types described in RFC1847, currently
deployed in PGP 5.0 and later versions.
Phase 1, Phase 2
Stages in the IKE negotiation. Phase 1 authenticates the two
parties and sets up a key management security association for
protecting the data. Phase 2 negotiates data management security
association, which uses the data management policy to set up
IPSec tunnels in the kernel for encapsulating and decapsulating
data packets.
ping (packet Internet groper)
A utility for determining whether a specific IP address is
accessible. It works by sending a packet to the specified address
and waiting for a reply.
PKCS
See Public Key Crypto Standards .
PKI
See Public Key Infrastructure .
plain text
Characters in a human-readable form prior to or after encryption.
Also called
clear text .
PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol)
A protocol for exchanging IP packets over a parallel cable.
Plug and Play
A standard in the personal computer market that assures the user
that the product is as simple to install as possible.