A set of data that identifies a person, machine, or application. Generic naming scheme term used to identify a particular self-generated or issued certificate. It effectively decouples the identification of a key for purposes of key lookup and access control from issues of network topology, routing, and IP addresses. Verisign is one of the best known CA's. component. An application or a service in i-Planet.
Components have attributes and privileges, much like users.
Practice of allowing or disallowing traffic based on the content of the data being sent. General mechanism that server-side connections can use to store and retrieve information on the client side of the connection. Cookies are small data files written to a user's hard drive by some Web sites when viewed in a Web browser. Application of an algorithm to reduce the space required to store or the bandwidth required to transmit data. Process of decrypting information that has been encrypted.