Glossary
Useful terms and words related to the Internet and related services:
Simply click on the letter that the term you are looking for begins with, and then click on the word when it appears.
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy - an encryption scheme which uses the "public key" approach - messages are encrypted using the publicly available key, but can only be deciphered by the intended recipient via the private key.
- Packet
- Page
- PageRank
- Patch
- PGP
- Phishing
- PHP
- Pixel
- Platform
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Plug-In
- Podcasting
- POP
- POP3 Account
- Portal
- Propagation
- Protocol
- Proxy Server
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