English-German dictionary of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. 2013.
Opportunistic encryption — (OE) refers to any system that, when connecting to another system, attempts to encrypt the communications channel otherwise falling back to unencrypted communications. This method requires no pre arrangement between the two systems. Opportunistic … Wikipedia
Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption — (MPPE) is a protocol for encrypting data across Point to Point Protocol (PPP) and virtual private network (VPN) links. It uses the RSA RC4 encryption algorithm. MPPE supports 40 bit, 56 bit and 128 bit session keys, which are changed frequently… … Wikipedia
Obfuscated TCP — (ObsTCP) was a proposal for a transport layer protocol which implements opportunistic encryption over TCP. It was designed to prevent mass wiretapping and malicious corruption of TCP traffic on the internet, with lower implementation cost and… … Wikipedia
Secure communication — includes means by which people can share information with varying degrees of certainty that third parties cannot know what was said. Other than communication spoken face to face out of possibility of listening, it is probably safe to say that no… … Wikipedia
E-mail privacy — The protection of electronic mail from unauthorized access and inspection is known as electronic privacy. In countries with a constitutional guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence, e mail is equated with letters and thus legally protected… … Wikipedia
Cypherpunk — Not to be confused with Cyberpunk. A cypherpunk is an activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography as a route to social and political change. Originally communicating through the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list, informal groups… … Wikipedia
IPsec — Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a suite of protocols for securing Internet Protocol (IP) communications by authenticating and/or encrypting each in a data stream. IPsec also includes protocols for cryptographic key establishment.… … Wikipedia
Virtual private network — A virtual private network (VPN) is a computer network in which some of the links between nodes are carried by open connections or virtual circuits in some larger network (e.g., the Internet) instead of by physical wires. The link layer protocols… … Wikipedia
Voice over IP — Digital voice redirects here. For the commercial service, see Comcast Digital Voice. Voice over Internet Protocol (Voice over IP, VoIP) is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the… … Wikipedia
ZRTP — is a cryptographic key agreement protocol to negotiate the keys to encrypt VoIP phone calls. ZRTP describes a method of Diffie Hellman key agreement for Secure Real time Transport Protocol (SRTP). It was submitted to the IETF by Phil Zimmermann,… … Wikipedia
Voice over Internet Protocol — (VoIP, IPAEng|vɔɪp) is a protocol optimized for the transmission of voice through the Internet or other packet switched networks. VoIP is often used abstractly to refer to the actual transmission of voice (rather than the protocol implementing… … Wikipedia
