P Welcome to the Northern Light Internet Glossary. If you are looking for the definitions of common, or not so common, Internet terms, click the corresponding letter below for that term. If you cannot find the term you are looking for in this glossary, please contact Customer Service and we will consider adding it. Protocol that allows a user to retrieve email messages from a POP server. Pretty Good Privacy A commonly used public-key encryption method.
Protocols determine anything from syntax to data formatting to error-detection.
An encryption method, in which a user employs a public and a private key. Messages encoded with the public key can be decoded only with the private key, held by the intended recipient.