CertiGuide to Security+  9  Glossary

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Session Key

An encryption key which is unique to a session and may change during the session

http://www.atis.org/tg2k/_session_key.html

SHA-1 is the official NIST standard for a data hashing algorithm and the MD5 is widely used for Internet applications

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci212230,00.html

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2202.html

http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/tkhash.html

http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip180-1.htm

a single action of user authentication and authorization can permit a user to access all computers and systems where he has access permission, without the need to enter multiple passwords

http://www.opengroup.org/security/sso/

http://www.techweb.com/tech/security/20020717_security

a now outdated protocol for communications between 2 TCP/IP based hosts

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci214211,00.html

A hardware device that contains data or used to generate a network ID. Refer to Token

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/smart_card.html

Capable of sending or receiving email, it is typically used for sending only and uses port 25 as a standard

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci214219,00.html

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