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digest authentication
01 May 2007
WORD - Digest authentication is a method of authentication in which a request from a potential user is received by a network server and then sent to a domain controller. The domain controller sends a special key, called a digest ...
IP spoofing
30 Jan 2006
WORD - IP spoofing, also known as IP address forgery or a host file hijack, is a hijacking technique in which a cracker masquerades as a trusted host to conceal his identity, spoof a Web site, hijack browsers, or gain access to a ...
Transport Layer Security
20 Jun 2001
WORD - Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a protocol that ensures privacy between communicating applications and their users on the Internet. When a server and client communicate, TLS ensures that no third party may eavesdrop or ...
Secure Sockets Layer
22 Apr 2003
WORD - The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet. SSL has recently been succeeded by Transport Layer Security (TLS), which is based on SSL. SSL ...
smurfing
02 Apr 2002
WORD - Smurfing is the attacking of a network by exploiting Internet Protocol (IP) broadcast addressing and certain other aspects of Internet operation. Smurfing uses a program called Smurf and similar programs to cause the ...
IGP
15 Aug 2003
WORD - An IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol) is a protocol for exchanging routing information between gateways (hosts with routers) within an autonomous network (for example, a system of corporate local area networks). The routing ...


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