Hosting Acronyms

APF — Advanced Policy Firewall:
- rfxnetworks/APF: explanation of the philosophy behind its setup
- How to Install and Use APF thanks to webhostgear.com

MTA — Mail Transfer Agent: the storage and forwarding portion of the email system

SSL — Secure Sockets Layer:
The leading protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data.
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TLS — Transport Layer Security:
A security protocol from the IETF that is based on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 protocol developed by Netscape. TLS uses digital certificates to authenticate the user as well as authenticate the network...The TLS client uses the public key from the server to encrypt a random number and send it back to the server. The random number, combined with additional random numbers previously sent to each other, is used to generate a secret session key to encrypt the subsequent message exchange.
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WTLS — Wireless Transport Layer Security:
The security services in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WTLS is based on TLS, the landline version that is widely used on the Internet. WTLS encrypts messages between the mobile WAP client and the gateway (the base station), which decrypts the WTLS and re-encrypts it using SSL before sending it to its destination.
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