This group has been formed by leading vendors including IBM, Cisco and 3Com along with smaller companies in order to provide a forum and website where interoperability of products can be discussed directly among vendors rather than relying on third-party testing. A trusted entity that has the capability of creating and revoking public key certificates for users and network elements. Clear channel A channel that places no restrictions on the type of data or data patterns that it can carry. Client A computer that requests services from a server. Encryption Transformation of data into unreadable, meaningless data through a cryptographic transformation using a key.
Decryption is the process of reversing the unintelligible data into meaningful data using a key.
Gateway A device used to interconnect networks, subnets, or other network devices. The networks can use different protocols and different physical media. A gateway has its own processor and memory. A collection of IPsecurity measures that define data privacy, integrity, authentication, key management, and tunneling methods. This is used to provide a secure VPN over the Internet.