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Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP, is a set of technologies developed by a consortium of mobile telephony equipment vendors that is designed to bring Web content to wireless handheld communication devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones.
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Well-Known Port Numbers
Well-known port numbers are port numbers for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) that have been assigned to specific TCP/IP applications or services by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
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Decoding Update Sequence Numbers (USN): The Backbone of Data Integrity
An Update Sequence Number (USN) is a system used primarily within computer storage and database management to track changes or updates made to a file system or database records.
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Trust Relationship
Definition of TRUST RELATIONSHIP in Network Encyclopedia. What is Trust Relationship (in computer networking)? Trust relationship is a secure communication channel between two domains in Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems. Trust relationships allow users in one domain to access resources in another domain. Trusts work by having one domain trust the authority of the other…
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Token Ring
Token Ring is a popular local area network (LAN) technology developed by IBM that still has a large installed base in many shops but has been greatly outpaced in recent years by different forms of Ethernet.
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TCP/IP
TCP/IP is an abbreviation for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, an industry-standard protocol suite for wide area networks (WANs) developed in the 1970s and 1980s by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
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SOCKS v5
SOCKS v5 is a circuit-layer proxy protocol used in client/server networking environments.
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Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)
SLIP is an industry-standard protocol developed in 1984 for UNIX environments that supports TCP/IP networking over serial transmission lines.
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Security Reference Monitor
Explore the evolution of Security Reference Monitor in Windows OS. From its role in Windows NT to modern versions, learn how SRM enforces security
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SATAN Tool: Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks
SATAN is a free tool developed by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema in 1995 for remotely analyzing the security of networks.
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Definition of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Network Encyclopedia. What is IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)? IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) is an international community of networking engineers, network administrators, researchers, and vendors whose goal is to ensure the smooth operation and evolution of the Internet. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) receives its…
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Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
S/MIME is an extension of the widely implemented Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) encoding standard, which defines how the body portion of an SMTP message is structured and formatted.