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Unit 4

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Term
Definition
Moore's Law   the observation that computing power roughly doubles every two years.  
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Big Data   a broad term for datasets so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate.  
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One-pager   A business/corporate term for a one-page document that summarizes a large issue, topic or plan.  
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Encryption   a process of encoding messages to keep them secret, so only "authorized" parties can read it.  
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Decryption   a process that reverses encryption, taking a secret message and reproducing the original plain text  
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Cipher   the generic term for a technique (or algorithm) that performs encryption  
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Caesar's Cipher   a technique for encryption that shifts the alphabet by some number of characters.  
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Random Substitution Cipher   an encoding technique that maps each letter of the alphabet randomly to different letters or characters.  
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Cracking encryption   When you attempt to decode a secret message without knowing all the specifics of the cipher, you are trying to crack the encryption.  
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Vigenère cipher   a method of encrypting text by applying a series of Caesar ciphers based on the letters of a keyword.  
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Computationally Hard   a "hard' problem for a computer is one in which it cannot arrive at a solution in a reasonable amount of time.  
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Modulo (or "mod")   the name of the mathematical operation.  
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Asymmetric encryption   a type of cryptographic based on algorithms that require two keys -- one of which is secret (or private) and one of which is public (freely known to others).  
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Public key   a value that can be used to encrypt a message. However, only when combined with a mathematically-related private key, can the message be decrypted.  
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Private key   the complementary key to a public key that is used to decrypt a message.  
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Antivirus Software   usually keeps big lists of known viruses and scans your computer looking for the virus programs in order to get rid of them.  
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DDoS Attack   Distributed Denial of Service Attack. Typically a virus installed on many computers (thousands) activate at the same time and flood a target with traffic to the point the server becomes overwhelmed.  
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Firewall   software that runs on servers (often routers) that only allows traffic through according to some set of security rules.  
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Phishing Scam   a thief trying to trick you into sending them sensitive information. Typically these include emails about system updates asking you send your username and password, social security number or other things.  
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SSL/TLS   Secure Sockets layer / Transport Layer Security - An encryption layer of HTTP that uses public key cryptography to establish a secure connection.  
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Virus   a program that runs on a computer to do something the owner of the computer does not intend.  
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