SMTP/POP
sets of rules that govern the email services
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
What does SMTP stand for?
post office protocol
what does POP stand for?
LAN
connects computers within a school or home
local area network
what does LAN stand for
wide area network
what does WAN stand for
WAN
connects devices over a broad geographic region -- e.g., a telephone network
HyperText Transfer Protocol
what does HTTP stand for
HTTP
the set of rules that governs the WWW application
HTML
a language for formatting Web pages
HyperText Markup Language
what does HTML stand for
DNS
an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses
Domain Name System
what does DNS stand for
rsa
a cryptosystem for public-key encryption, and is widely used for securing sensitive data, particularly when being sent over an insecure network such as the Internet.
Rivest Shamir Adleman
what does rsa stand for
ssl
a protocol for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
what does ssl stand for