Glossary Terms

A safety approach where important steps must be confirmed by a human.

An international technical organization known for standards, conferences and professional publications.

A clue that may indicate a system has been compromised.

A network address of a device or connection. Websites can use it to estimate your network or rough location.

A cypherpunk, programmer and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

A name associated with public criticism and expert debate around the DES standard.

The principle that encryption security should rely on the secrecy of the key, not the secrecy of the algorithm.

A tool that records keystrokes. It can steal passwords, messages, or other sensitive data.

Encryption where only the sender’s and recipient’s devices read the message, not the server in between.

One of the three authors of the RSA algorithm.