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1. Domain Name System (DNS) Chapter 25
2. TELNET Chapter 26
3. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and Post Office Protocol Chapter 26
4. File Transfer Protocol Chapter 26
5. World Wide Web www Chapter27
6. Hyper text transfer Protocol HTTP Chapter27
7. Terminologies in Network Security Chapter30
8. Firewalls Chapter32
9. Virtual Private Network (VPN) Chapter32
Terminologies of Network Security
Cryptography
The science and art of transforming messages to make them secure and immune
to attacks.
4 Some Basic Terminology
plaintext - original message
ciphertext - coded message
key - info used in cipher known only to sender/receiver
encipher (encrypt) - converting plaintext to ciphertext
decipher (decrypt) - recovering plaintext from ciphertext
cryptography - study of encryption principles/methods
Plaintext
Ciphertext
Cipher
We refer to encryption and decryption algorithms as ciphers. The term cipher is also
used to refer to different categories of algorithms in cryptography.
Key
A key is a number (or a set of numbers) that the cipher, as an
algorithm, operates on.