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| 6615058352 | absolute path | Representation of the location of a resource on a hard disk with respect to the root or the location of a web resource using a full URL. | 0 | |
| 6615058353 | add-on | A piece of software designed to enhance the capabilities of another piece of software. | 1 | |
| 6615070949 | authenticate | A check to make sure that a computer or user is who/what it says it is. | 2 | |
| 6615072026 | authoritative DNS | A server that publishes DNS data for a given domain and its subdomains. | 3 | |
| 6615072027 | bandwidth | Measurement of the amount of data that can be transmitted through a network. | 4 | |
| 6615073819 | cache | Data storage built into a hardware component or computer system to improve speeds by providing memory closer to the point of use. | 5 | |
| 6615074962 | Certificate Authority | A business or organization that issues a digital certificate verifying that a given public key is owned by the entity named on the certificate. | 6 | |
| 6615074963 | ciphertext | A string of text that has been converted to a secure form using encryption. | 7 | |
| 6615076377 | cookie | A small piece of data stored on the client machine that can only be accessed by the server that issued it. | 8 | |
| 6615076378 | credentials | A set of information that identifies a particular user or machine. | 9 | |
| 6615077527 | cryptography | The study and use of techniques for securing communication. | 10 | |
| 6615077528 | decryption | The process of converting a ciphertext into plaintext. | 11 | |
| 6615085900 | domain | A region of the Internet that is grouped together for administrative purposes such as allocating ownership of resources. | 12 | |
| 6615087036 | Domain Name System (DNS) | A hierarchical system for naming resources on the Internet. | 13 | |
| 6615087037 | encryption | The process of converting plaintext to ciphertext. | 14 | |
| 6615087038 | Ethernet | A set of protocols and computer networking technologies used for sending data over copper or glass fiber-optic cables. | 15 | |
| 6615088551 | FTP | File Transfer Protocol uses a TCP-based network to pass files from host to host. | 16 | |
| 6615088552 | handshake | A protocol for the beginning of an interaction. | 17 | |
| 6615089762 | hierarchical | Hierarchical design, in which a system is designed in a tree where each member is a child or a parent element, is a strategy for creating systems that will still work if they grow many times larger. | 18 | |
| 6615089763 | IPv4 | The Internet Protocol version 4 is the dominant protocol for routing traffic on the Internet, specifying "to" and "from" addresses using a dotted decimal such as "122.45.255.0". | 19 | |
| 6615089764 | IPv6 | The Internet Protocol version 6 provides a large number of new addresses to route Internet traffic, using "from" and "to" addresses written as colon-hexadecimal notation, such as "fe80::42:acff:feaa:1bf0". | 20 | |
| 6615091294 | ISP | Internet Service Providers make Internet access available to users. | 21 | |
| 6615091295 | Linux | Linux is a free, open source operating system in the UNIX family of operating systems. | 22 | |
| 6615093082 | MAC address | Each Wi-Fi and Ethernet card has a media access control address embedded in the hardware, represented as six two-digit hexadecimal numbers separated by colons, such as "34:5f:01:6d:33:ff". | 23 | |
| 6615093083 | name server | A computer dedicated to providing responses to requests for Domain Name information. | 24 | |
| 6615094994 | NIC | A Network Interface Card is a piece of hardware that allows a computer to connect to a network. | 25 | |
| 6615094995 | packet | A chunk of data transmitted as a unit over a network, sometimes in smaller bursts called frames. | 26 | |
| 6615096719 | paired keys | Two keys that are related in such a way that one can be used to encrypt data, which can then only be decrypted by the other key. | 27 | |
| 6615096720 | parent | An element in a tree data structure that is the immediate ancestor of another element. | 28 | |
| 6615098198 | path | An expression of the location of a resource on a computer. | 29 | |
| 6615098199 | plaintext | Information that is readable without performing any cryptographic operations. | 30 | |
| 6615098200 | protocol | An agreed-upon method for conducting a communication. | 31 | |
| 6615099582 | public key encryption | A method of paired key encryption in which the key used to encrypt data is made available to anybody and its corresponding decryption key is kept secret. | 32 | |
| 6615099583 | query | A request for information. | 33 | |
| 6615101499 | redundancy | The property of having many resources or components which all serve identical purposes. | 34 | |
| 6615101500 | relative path | An expression of the path to a resource on a computer with respect to the current working directory. | 35 | |
| 6615102643 | root | n. A file system has a root directory with no parent. n. An operating system has a root user with no limits on privileges. v. To root a system is to obtain root access, i.e. the unlimited privileges of the root user. | 36 | |
| 6615102644 | router | A piece of hardware responsible for dictating the flow of packets over a network. | 37 | |
| 6615102645 | shell | 38 | ||
| 6615104520 | SSH | 39 | ||
| 6615108563 | SSL Certificate | A digital document used to verify the authenticity of a server or public key. | 40 | |
| 6615109937 | substitution cipher | A method of encryption and decryption in which each letter in the alphabet is replaced by another. | 41 | |
| 6615109938 | TCP | The transmission control protocol puts IP packets in sequence and checks for errors in transmission. | 42 | |
| 6615109939 | TCP Handshake | The protocol by which a client and server machine establish communication for the transfer of data. | 43 | |
| 6615112358 | TCP/IP | The dominant set of protocols for the transfer of data over the Internet. | 44 | |
| 6615112359 | top-level domain | Domains (including .net, .org, .com, .mil. and the set .xx country codes) at the end of a domain name are the highest level of the domain name hierarchy. | 45 | |
| 6615114083 | URL | Uniform Resource Locators are strings of characters that contain information about how to access a resource over the Internet. | 46 | |
| 6615117171 | web crawler | A softbot responsible for following hyperlinks throughout the Internet to provide information for the creation of a web index. | 47 | |
| 6615115966 | web index | A database that stores information about web content. | 48 | |
| 6615114084 | WYSIWIG | Any content editor that shows how the final product will look as the user makes modifications. | 49 |
