- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
Code that provides encryption for sensitive data, such as passwords, in applications.
Industry:Software
Information, such as user name and password, for a particular user or account for gaining access to a resource.
Industry:Software
An attack by a malicious user or malicious software on a computer or operating system to find a secret password or a symmetric encryption key by guessing passwords or keys until the correct password or key is discovered.
Industry:Software
The property of a cryptographic algorithm that ensures that a change in a few input bits leads to potential changes in many of the output bits.
Industry:Software
A mathematical function used for encryption and decryption. Most cryptographic algorithms are based on a substitution cipher, a transposition cipher, or a combination of both.
Industry:Software
A component that establishes communication between the Windows Process Activation Service (WASW) and protocol listeners, such as HTTP.sys. This allows listeners to get configuration information about applications and namespaces they monitor. Listener adapters also notify the Windows Process Activation Service about incoming messages for applications that have not connected to a worker process.
Industry:Software
Identity assigned to a user during authentication. For example, the user identity of anonymous users would be the default "iusr" account.
Industry:Software
An hour that is included in a calculation as billable or efficient.
Industry:Software
An application pool setting that determines how to process requests that involve managed resources. The options are integrated mode or classic mode.
Industry:Software
The condition, at any particular time, of the delegation setting. Delegation state examples include read only, read/write, not delegated, and so on.
Industry:Software
