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<dt id="digital_ID">digital ID</dt> | <dt id="digital_ID">digital ID</dt> | ||
<dd>See | <dd>See [[#certificate|certificate].</dd> | ||
<dt id="e-mail">e-mail</dt> | <dt id="e-mail">e-mail</dt> | ||
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<dt id="SSL">Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)</dt> | <dt id="SSL">Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)</dt> | ||
<dd>A protocol that allows mutual authentication between a <a href="#client">client</a> and a <a href="#server">server</a> for the purpose of establishing an authenticated and encrypted connection. SSL runs above TCP/IP and below HTTP, LDAP, IMAP, NNTP, and other high-level network protocols. The new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard called Transport Layer Security (TLS) is based on SSL. See also | <dd>A protocol that allows mutual authentication between a <a href="#client">client</a> and a <a href="#server">server</a> for the purpose of establishing an authenticated and encrypted connection. SSL runs above TCP/IP and below HTTP, LDAP, IMAP, NNTP, and other high-level network protocols. The new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard called Transport Layer Security (TLS) is based on SSL. See also [[#authentication|authentication]], [[#encryption|encryption]].</dd> | ||
<dt id="server">server</dt> | <dt id="server">server</dt> | ||
<dd>Software (such as software that serves up web pages) that receives requests from and sends information to a | <dd>Software (such as software that serves up web pages) that receives requests from and sends information to a [[#client|client]], which is usually running on a different computer. A computer on which server software runs is also described as a server.</dd> | ||
<dt id="Status_Bar">Status Bar</dt> | <dt id="Status_Bar">Status Bar</dt> | ||
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<dt id="World_Wide_Web">World Wide Web</dt> | <dt id="World_Wide_Web">World Wide Web</dt> | ||
<dd>Also known as the Web. A portion of the Internet that is made up of web pages stored by web | <dd>Also known as the Web. A portion of the Internet that is made up of web pages stored by web [[#server|servers]] and displayed by [[#client|clients]] called web browsers (such as &brandShortName;).</dd> | ||
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