01:198:110 Quiz: privacy and security study guide

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: 01:198:110
• Professor: Alan Belowich

Document Summary

Refer to webopedia. com, howstufworks. com (tech tab), and the aricles and videos listed on the. Networks and internet resource document to answer the quesions and deine the terms listed below. Web bug: web beacon is an object embedded in a web page or email, which unobtrusively (usually invisibly) allows checking that a user has accessed the content. Common uses are email tracking and page tagging for web analytics. Https: is the use of secure socket layer (ssl) or transport layer. Security (tls) as a sublayer under regular http application layering. Https encrypts and decrypts user page requests as well as the pages that are returned by the web server. Sftp: secure file transfer protocol (sftp) is a secure version of. File transfer protocol (ftp), which facilitates data access and data transfer over a secure shell (ssh) data stream. Pgp: pretty good privacy (pgp) is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication.