computer science unit 6

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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