Useful Terms in Anti-Virus and Data Security

A

access control
address masquerading
address spoofing
asymmetric algorithm
anonymous
authentication
authorization

B

bastion host
biometric systems
boot sector virus
brute force attack

C

certificate
certificate authority
cipher
ciphertext
cleartext
confidentiality
cookie
cracker
cryptography

D

decryption
denial of service attack
distributed denial of service attack
DES (Data Encryption Standard)
digital signature

E

encryption
ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload)

F

firewall

G

H

hacker
hash
hierarchical trust

I

IETF (Internet Engineer Task Force)
integrity
intrusion detection
ISAKMP
ISAKMP/Oakley

J

K

kerberos
key
key escrow

L

M

Message Digest

N

O

Oakley
one-time passwords
one-way hash

P

packet filter
passphrase
PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail)
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
phreaker
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
plaintext
port sweep
private key
public-key cryptosystem
punch

Q

R

relay
relay attack
RSA

S

screening router
secret key cryptosystem
secure NFS
session key
shadow passwords
s-http
SKIP (Simple Key management for Internet Protocols)
S/MIME (Secure Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extension)
snooping attack
social engineering
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
SSH
static password
symmetric algorithm

T

trojan horse

U

V

W

X

X.509

Y

Z