HTTPS, the Glossary

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1. 100 relations: Address bar, Android (operating system), Application layer, Authentication, Black Hat Briefings, Block cipher mode of operation, Bullrun (decryption program), Captive portal, Certificate authority, Certificate revocation list, Chosen-ciphertext attack, Chromium (web browser), Cipher, Cipher suite, Ciphertext, Client certificate, Communication protocol, Communications security, Comodo Cybersecurity, Computer network, Computer security, Data integrity, Dialog box, Diffie–Hellman key exchange, Eavesdropping, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman, Encryption, Extended Validation Certificate, Firefox, Forward secrecy, Google Chrome, HTTP, HTTP cookie, HTTP Strict Transport Security, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTPS Everywhere, If and only if, Implementation, Indiana University Bloomington, Information privacy, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Internet, Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, Internet filter, Internet protocol suite, Let's Encrypt, ... Expand index (50 more) »

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Address bar

In a web browser, the address bar (also location bar or URL bar) is the element that shows the current URL.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Application layer

An application layer is an abstraction layer that specifies the shared communication protocols and interface methods used by hosts in a communications network.

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Authentication

Authentication (from authentikos, "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης authentes, "author") is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user.

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Black Hat Briefings

Black Hat Briefings (commonly referred to as Black Hat) is a computer security conference that provides security consulting, training, and briefings to hackers, corporations, and government agencies around the world.

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Block cipher mode of operation

In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity.

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Bullrun (decryption program)

Bullrun (stylized BULLRUN) is a clandestine, highly classified program to crack encryption of online communications and data, which is run by the United States National Security Agency (NSA).

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Captive portal

A captive portal is a web page accessed with a web browser that is displayed to newly connected users of a Wi-Fi or wired network before they are granted broader access to network resources.

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In cryptography, a certificate authority or certification authority (CA) is an entity that stores, signs, and issues digital certificates. HTTPS and certificate authority are transport Layer Security.

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Certificate revocation list

In cryptography, a certificate revocation list (CRL) is "a list of digital certificates that have been revoked by the issuing certificate authority (CA) before their scheduled expiration date and should no longer be trusted". HTTPS and certificate revocation list are transport Layer Security.

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Chosen-ciphertext attack

A chosen-ciphertext attack (CCA) is an attack model for cryptanalysis where the cryptanalyst can gather information by obtaining the decryptions of chosen ciphertexts.

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Chromium (web browser)

Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google.

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Cipher

In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure.

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Cipher suite

A cipher suite is a set of algorithms that help secure a network connection. HTTPS and cipher suite are secure communication and transport Layer Security.

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Ciphertext

In cryptography, ciphertext or cyphertext is the result of encryption performed on plaintext using an algorithm, called a cipher.

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Client certificate

In cryptography, a client certificate is a type of digital certificate that is used by client systems to make authenticated requests to a remote server.

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Communication protocol

A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any variation of a physical quantity.

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Communications security

Communications security is the discipline of preventing unauthorized interceptors from accessing telecommunications in an intelligible form, while still delivering content to the intended recipients.

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Comodo Cybersecurity

Xcitium, formerly known as Comodo Security Solutions, Inc., is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Bloomfield, New Jersey.

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Computer network

A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes.

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Computer security

Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from threats that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, theft of (or damage to) hardware, software, or data, as well as from the disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. HTTPS and computer security are secure communication.

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Data integrity

Data integrity is the maintenance of, and the assurance of, data accuracy and consistency over its entire life-cycle.

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Dialog box

The dialog box (also called message box or simply dialog) is a graphical control element in the form of a small window that communicates information to the user and prompts them for a response.

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Diffie–Hellman key exchange

Diffie–Hellman (DH) key exchangeSynonyms of Diffie–Hellman key exchange include.

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Eavesdropping

Eavesdropping is the act of secretly or stealthily listening to the private conversation or communications of others without their consent in order to gather information.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman

Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH) is a key agreement protocol that allows two parties, each having an elliptic-curve public–private key pair, to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel.

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Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.

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Extended Validation Certificate

An Extended Validation Certificate (EV) is a certificate conforming to X.509 that proves the legal entity of the owner and is signed by a certificate authority key that can issue EV certificates. HTTPS and Extended Validation Certificate are transport Layer Security.

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Firefox

Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.

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Forward secrecy

In cryptography, forward secrecy (FS), also known as perfect forward secrecy (PFS), is a feature of specific key-agreement protocols that gives assurances that session keys will not be compromised even if long-term secrets used in the session key exchange are compromised, limiting damage. HTTPS and forward secrecy are transport Layer Security.

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Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google.

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HTTP

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTPS and HTTP are Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

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HTTP cookie

HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser.

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HTTP Strict Transport Security

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a policy mechanism that helps to protect websites against man-in-the-middle attacks such as protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking. HTTPS and HTTP Strict Transport Security are transport Layer Security.

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HTTP/2

HTTP/2 (originally named HTTP/2.0) is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web. HTTPS and HTTP/2 are Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

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HTTP/3

HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to exchange information on the World Wide Web, complementing the widely-deployed HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. HTTPS and HTTP/3 are Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

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HTTPS Everywhere

HTTPS Everywhere is a discontinued free and open-source browser extension for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox for Android, which was developed collaboratively by The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). HTTPS and HTTPS Everywhere are secure communication and transport Layer Security.

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If and only if

In logic and related fields such as mathematics and philosophy, "if and only if" (often shortened as "iff") is paraphrased by the biconditional, a logical connective between statements.

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Implementation

Implementation is the realization of an application, execution of a plan, idea, model, design, specification, standard, algorithm, policy, or the administration or management of a process or objective.

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Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, or simply Indiana) is a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Information privacy

Information privacy is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information norms, and the legal and political issues surrounding them.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).

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Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems.

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Internet Explorer 7

Windows Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) (codenamed Rincon) is a web browser for Windows.

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Internet filter

An Internet filter is software that restricts or controls the content an Internet user is capable to access, especially when utilized to restrict material delivered over the Internet via the Web, Email, or other means.

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Internet protocol suite

The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria.

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Let's Encrypt

Let's Encrypt is a non-profit certificate authority run by Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) that provides X.509 certificates for Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption at no charge. HTTPS and Let's Encrypt are secure communication and transport Layer Security.

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List of TCP and UDP port numbers

This is a list of TCP and UDP port numbers used by protocols for operation of network applications.

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Malware

Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software)Tahir, R. (2018).

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Man-in-the-middle attack

In cryptography and computer security, a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, or on-path attack, is a cyberattack where the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters the communications between two parties who believe that they are directly communicating with each other, as the attacker has inserted themselves between the two user parties. HTTPS and man-in-the-middle attack are transport Layer Security.

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Mass surveillance

Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens.

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Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Docs

Microsoft Docs was a library of technical documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals who work with Microsoft products.

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Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft.

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Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project.

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National Security Agency

The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

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Netscape

Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and then Dulles, Virginia.

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Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator is a discontinued web browser, and the original browser of the Netscape line, from versions 1 to 4.08, and 9.x. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corp and was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s, but by around 2003 its user base had all but disappeared.

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Online Certificate Status Protocol

The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is an Internet protocol used for obtaining the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate. HTTPS and Online Certificate Status Protocol are cryptographic protocols and transport Layer Security.

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Opera (web browser)

Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera.

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Opportunistic encryption

Opportunistic encryption (OE) refers to any system that, when connecting to another system, attempts to encrypt communications channels, otherwise falling back to unencrypted communications.

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Packet analyzer

A packet analyzer, also known as packet sniffer, protocol analyzer, or network analyzer, is a computer program or computer hardware such as a packet capture appliance that can analyze and log traffic that passes over a computer network or part of a network.

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Packet injection

Packet injection (also known as forging packets or spoofing packets) in computer networking, is the process of interfering with an established network connection by means of constructing packets to appear as if they are part of the normal communication stream.

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Plaintext

In cryptography, plaintext usually means unencrypted information pending input into cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms.

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Port (computer networking)

In computer networking, a port or port number is a number assigned to uniquely identify a connection endpoint and to direct data to a specific service.

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Public key certificate

In cryptography, a public key certificate, also known as a digital certificate or identity certificate, is an electronic document used to prove the validity of a public key.

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Public-key cryptography

Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys. HTTPS and Public-key cryptography are cryptographic protocols.

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QUIC

QUIC is a general-purpose transport layer network protocol initially designed by Jim Roskind at Google.

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Root certificate

In cryptography and computer security, a root certificate is a public key certificate that identifies a root certificate authority (CA). HTTPS and root certificate are transport Layer Security.

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Safari (web browser)

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple.

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Secure cookie

Secure cookies are a type of disable HTTP cookie that have Secure attribute set, which limits the scope of the cookie to "secure" channels (where "secure" is defined by the user agent, typically web browser).

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Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP) is an obsolete alternative to the HTTPS protocol for encrypting web communications carried over the Internet. HTTPS and Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol are cryptographic protocols and Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

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Server Name Indication

Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) computer networking protocol by which a client indicates which hostname it is attempting to connect to at the start of the handshaking process. HTTPS and Server Name Indication are secure communication and transport Layer Security.

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Session key

A session key is a single-use symmetric key used for encrypting all messages in one communication session.

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Side-channel attack

In computer security, a side-channel attack is any attack based on extra information that can be gathered because of the fundamental way a computer protocol or algorithm is implemented, rather than flaws in the design of the protocol or algorithm itself (e.g. flaws found in a cryptanalysis of a cryptographic algorithm) or minor, but potentially devastating, mistakes or oversights in the implementation.

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Softpedia

Softpedia is a software and tech news website based in Romania.

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SPDY

SPDY (pronounced "speedy") is an obsolete open-specification communication protocol developed for transporting web content.

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Stunnel

Stunnel is an open-source multi-platform application used to provide a universal TLS/SSL tunneling service.

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Supply chain attack

A supply chain attack is a cyber-attack that seeks to damage an organization by targeting less secure elements in the supply chain.

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The Tor Project

The Tor Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization based in Winchester, Massachusetts.

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Tor (network)

Tor is a free overlay network for enabling anonymous communication.

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Traffic analysis

Traffic analysis is the process of intercepting and examining messages in order to deduce information from patterns in communication.

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Transport Layer Security

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network. HTTPS and Transport Layer Security are cryptographic protocols.

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Uniform Resource Identifier

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), formerly Universal Resource Identifier, is a unique sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource, such as resources on a webpage, mail address, phone number, books, real-world objects such as people and places, concepts.

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URL

A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. HTTPS and URL are internet properties established in 1994 and URI schemes.

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Web browser

A web browser is an application for accessing websites.

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Web crawler

A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering).

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Web of trust

In cryptography, a web of trust is a concept used in PGP, GnuPG, and other OpenPGP-compatible systems to establish the authenticity of the binding between a public key and its owner.

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Web server

A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS.

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Website

A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

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Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.

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Windows Vista

Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Wireless LAN

A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network that links two or more devices using wireless communication to form a local area network (LAN) within a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, campus, or office building.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.

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X.509

In cryptography, X.509 is an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standard defining the format of public key certificates. HTTPS and X.509 are cryptographic protocols.

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2010s global surveillance disclosures

During the 2010s, international media reports revealed new operational details about the Anglophone cryptographic agencies' global surveillance of both foreign and domestic nationals.

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See also

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

• Atdmt
• BOSH (protocol)
• Basic access authentication
• Byte serving
• Cache Array Routing Protocol
• CardDAV
• Comparison of CalDAV and CardDAV implementations
• Constrained Application Protocol
• Content negotiation
• Dave Raggett
• Digest access authentication
• Domain Application Protocol
• Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
• HAR (file format)
• HTTP
• HTTP Live Streaming
• HTTP compression
• HTTP message body
• HTTP parameter pollution
• HTTP persistent connection
• HTTP pipelining
• HTTP tunnel
• HTTP/2
• HTTP/2 Server Push
• HTTP/3
• HTTPS
• Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
• High Efficiency Streaming Protocol
• Httperf
• Link prefetching
• Linked Data Platform
• MMCache
• PATCH (HTTP)
• POST (HTTP)
• REST
• Roy Fielding
• Salmon (protocol)
• Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Web cache
• Web-based SSH
• WebDAV
• Webhook
• Well-known URI

URI schemes

• About URI scheme
• Acct URI scheme
• Bistro Framework
• Blob URI scheme
• CURIE
• Content reference identifier
• Data URI scheme
• Ed2k URI scheme
• Extensible Resource Identifier
• Feed URI scheme
• File URI scheme
• Geo URI scheme
• Gopher (protocol)
• HTTP referer
• HTTPS
• Identifiers.org
• Info URI scheme
• LSID
• Lex (URN)
• List of URI schemes
• Magnet URI scheme
• Mailto
• Percent-encoding
• Persistent uniform resource locator
• SIP URI scheme
• Tag URI scheme
• Telnet
• URI fragment
• URL
• Uniform Resource Characteristic
• Uniform Resource Name
• View-source URI scheme
• WYCIWYG
• Webcal
• Well-known URI

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

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