VeriSign - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Verisign: Encyclopedia Ii - Verisign - History
VeriSign was founded in 1995 as a spin-off of the RSA Security certification services business. The new company received licenses to key ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transport Layer Security: Encyclopedia Ii - Transport Layer Security - How It Works
The SSL protocol exchanges records; each record can be optionally compressed, encrypted and packed with a message authentication code (MA...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crazy Frog: Encyclopedia Ii - Crazy Frog - Ringtone
In 2004, the Germany based Jamba! group (ultimately owned by VeriSign) licensed the animation and sound for distribution as a mobile phon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ua: Encyclopedia - Ua
UA or ua may stand for: Ukraine (ISO country code) Astronomical unit Ua, the god of rain in Polynesian mythology UA, a Japanese singer U...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crazy Frog: Encyclopedia - Crazy Frog
Crazy Frog is the marketing title of a ring tone based on 'The Annoying Thing', a computer animation created by Erik Wernquist. Marketed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Two-factor Authentication: Encyclopedia - Two-factor Authentication
Two-factor authentication (T-FA) is any authentication protocol that requires two independent ways to establish identity and privileges. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transport Layer Security: Encyclopedia Ii - Transport Layer Security - Description
SSL provides endpoint authentication and communications privacy over the Internet using cryptography. In typical use, only the server is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transport Layer Security: Encyclopedia Ii - Transport Layer Security - History And Development
Developed by Netscape, SSL version 3.0 was released in 1996, which later served as a basis to develop TLS version 1.0, an IETF standard p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transport Layer Security: Encyclopedia Ii - Transport Layer Security - Standards
The first definition of TLS appeared in RFC 2246: "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0". Other RFCs subsequently extended TLS, including: RFC 2...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transport Layer Security: Encyclopedia Ii - Transport Layer Security - Applications
SSL runs on layers beneath application protocols such as HTTP, SMTP and NNTP and above the TCP transport protocol, which forms part of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name - Uses And Abuses
As domain names became attractive to marketers, rather than just the technical audience for which they were originally intended, they beg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Syntax
The overall structure of Perl derives broadly from the programming language C. Perl is a procedural programming language, with variables,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Icann: Encyclopedia Ii - Icann - Notable Events In Icann History
On March 14, 2002, in a public meeting in Accra, in Ghana, ICANN decided to reduce direct public ("at large") participation. One of a few...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Language Structure
Perl - Example Program. In Perl, the canonical "Hello world" program is: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello, world!\n"; The first line is t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - September 2003: Encyclopedia Ii - September 2003 - Events
See Also: U.S. Presidential Election Iraq timeline Afghanistan timeline September 2003 California recall Hutton Inquiry Liberian crisis ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mark Shuttleworth: Encyclopedia Ii - Mark Shuttleworth - Work
Mark Shuttleworth - Thawte. In 1995, he founded Thawte, which specialised in digital certificates and Internet security. He sold Thawte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Dns In Practice
When an application (such as a web browser) tries to find the IP address of a domain name, it doesn't necessarily follow all of the steps...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Silicon Valley: Encyclopedia Ii - Silicon Valley - History
The San Francisco Bay area had long been a major site of US Navy work, and the site of their large research airfield at Moffett Field. A ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nasdaq-100: Encyclopedia Ii - Nasdaq-100 - Etfs
The NASDAQ 100 Trust Series 1 Exchange-traded fund trades under the symbol QQQQ. On December 1, 2004, it was moved from the American Stoc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Two-factor Authentication: Encyclopedia Ii - Two-factor Authentication - Problems With T-fa
Deployment of T-FA tools such as smartcards and USB tokens appears to be increasing. More organizations are adding a layer of security to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Public Key Infrastructure: Encyclopedia Ii - Public Key Infrastructure - History
The public disclosure of both secure key exchange and asymmetric key algorithms in 1976 by Diffie, Hellman, and Rivest, Shamir, and Adlem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sex.com: Encyclopedia Ii - Sex.com - History
In 1994 the Californian Gary Kremen (now the CEO of Grant Media, LLC) registered the domain with Network Solutions (NSI). He did not deve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jamba!: Encyclopedia Ii - Jamba! - Controversy
Jamba! has drawn criticism for allegedly misleading customers in its service advertisements. In general, Jamba! services are sold as a su...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Network Solutions: Encyclopedia Ii - Network Solutions - History
Network Solutions started as a technology consulting company in 1979, with approximately 30 employees, and focused its efforts on applica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - June 2002: Encyclopedia Ii - June 2002 - Events
See also: Afghanistan timeline June 2002 June 2002 - June 27 2002. Accountancy scandals - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nasdaq-100: Encyclopedia Ii - Nasdaq-100 - Etfs
The NASDAQ 100 Trust Series 1 Exchange-traded fund trades under the symbol QQQQ. On December 1, 2004, it was moved from the American Stoc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - .au: Encyclopedia Ii - .au - Operation Of .au
Oversight of .au is conducted by .au Domain Administration (auDA). It is a not-for-profit organisation whose membership is derived from I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Dns In Practice
When an application (such as a web browser) tries to find the IP address of a domain name, it doesn't necessarily follow all of the steps...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crazy Frog: Encyclopedia Ii - Crazy Frog - History
In 1997, 17-year-old Swede Daniel Malmedahl recorded himself impersonating the sounds produced by internal combustion engines. He posted ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Silicon Valley: Encyclopedia Ii - Silicon Valley - Cities
A number of cities are located in Silicon Valley (in alphabetical order): Campbell | Cupertino | Fremont | Los Altos | Los Gatos | Menlo ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Silicon Valley: Encyclopedia Ii - Silicon Valley - Origin Of The Term
The term Silicon Valley was coined by journalist Don Hoefler in 1971. He used it as the title of a series of articles "Silicon Valley USA...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Silicon Valley: Encyclopedia Ii - Silicon Valley - Notable Companies
Thousands of high technology companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley; among those, the following are in the Forbes 500: Adobe Syste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Politics
Many investigators have voiced criticism of the methods used currently to control ownership of domains. Most commonly, critics claim abus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Dns Software
Various flavors of DNS software implement the DNS, including: BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) – full featured, most popular, de f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Icann: Encyclopedia Ii - Icann - Arguments About Icann
The contract for ICANN came from the U.S. Department of Commerce and was "sole sourced", which means no-one else (such as the Open Root S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Public Key Infrastructure: Encyclopedia Ii - Public Key Infrastructure - Typical Use
Most enterprise-scale PKI systems rely on certificate chains to establish a party's identity, as a certificate may have been issued by a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Public Key Infrastructure: Encyclopedia Ii - Public Key Infrastructure - Alternatives
Public key infrastructure - Web Of Trust. An alternative approach to the problem of authentication of public key information across tim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Fun With Perl
As with C, obfuscated code competitions are a popular feature of Perl culture. The annual Obfuscated Perl contest makes an arch virtue of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Legal Users Of Domains
Domain Name System - Registrant. No one in the world really "owns" a domain name except the Network Information Centre (NIC), or domain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - A Brief History Of The Dns
The practice of using a name as a more human-legible abstraction of a machine's numerical address on the network predates even TCP/IP, al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - How The Dns Works In Theory
The domain name space is a tree of domain names. Each node or leaf in the tree is associated with resource records, which hold the inform...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Types Of Dns Records
Important categories of data stored in the DNS include the following: An A record or address record maps a hostname to a 32-bit IPv4 add...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Internationalized Domain Names
Main article: Internationalized domain name Domain names must use only a subset of ASCII characters—the Roman alphabet in upper and low...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - .au: Encyclopedia Ii - .au - Third-level Domains
The use of .gov.au and .edu.au is also split up into further state-based categories. State governments and schools use a domain name that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Philosophy
The perlintro(1) man page states: Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Legal Users Of Domains
Domain Name System - Registrant. No one in the world really "owns" a domain name except the Network Information Centre (NIC), or domain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Dns Software
Various flavors of DNS software implement the DNS, including: BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) – full featured, most popular, de f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Politics
Many investigators have voiced criticism of the methods used currently to control ownership of domains. Most commonly, critics claim abus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name - Examples
The following examples illustrates the difference between a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and a domain name: URL: http://www.example.co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name - Official Assignment
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has overall responsibility for managing the DNS. It controls the root domain,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name - Top-level Domains
Every domain name ends in a top-level domain (TLD) name, which is always either one of a small list of generic names (three or more chara...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Internationalized Domain Names
Main article: Internationalized domain name Domain names must use only a subset of ASCII characters—the Roman alphabet in upper and low...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - Types Of Dns Records
Important categories of data stored in the DNS include the following: An A record or address record maps a hostname to a 32-bit IPv4 add...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crazy Frog: Encyclopedia Ii - Crazy Frog - Single Releases
Crazy Frog - Crazy Frog - Axel F. Main article: Axel F (Crazy Frog song) A German dance duo named Bass Bumpers made a dance single star...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crazy Frog: Encyclopedia Ii - Crazy Frog - Description
The title character in The Annoying Thing is an anthropomorphic amphibian that is quite frog-like in appearance. The character wears only...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crazy Frog: Encyclopedia Ii - Crazy Frog - Album Releases
Crazy Frog - Crazy Hits. Main article: Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits An album entitled Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits was released on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crazy Frog: Encyclopedia Ii - Crazy Frog - Video Games
Crazy Frog - Crazy Frog Racer. On July 1, 2005, UK-based publishers Digital Jesters announced that they had acquired the rights to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - How The Dns Works In Theory
Domain Name System - Actors. The domain name space is a tree of domain names. Each node or leaf in the tree is associated with resource...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name System: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name System - A Brief History Of The Dns
The practice of using a name as a more human-legible abstraction of a machine's numerical address on the network predates even TCP/IP, al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Opinion
Perl engenders strong feelings among both its proponents and its detractors. Perl - Pro. Programmers who like Perl typically cite its p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name - Generic Domain Names — Problems Arising Out Of Unregulated Name Selection
Within a particular top-level domain, parties are generally free to select an unallocated domain name as their own on a first come, first...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Name
Perl was originally named "Pearl", after "the pearl of great price" of Matthew 13:46. Larry Wall wanted to give the language a short name...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - History
Larry Wall began work on Perl in 1987, and released version 1.0 to the comp.sources.misc newsgroup on December 18, 1987. The language exp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Usage
Perl has many and varied applications. It has been used since the early days of the Web to write CGI scripts, and is an integral componen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Availability
Perl - Supported platforms. Perl is available for most operating systems. It is particularly prevalent on Unix and Unix-like systems (s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Resources
Perl - Implementations. Perl is implemented as a core interpreter, written in C, together with a large collection of modules, written i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name - Unconventional Domain Names
Due to the rarity of one-word dot-com domain names, many unconventional domain names, domain hacks, have been gaining popularity. They ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Cpan
CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is a collection of mirrored web sites that serve as a primary archive and distribution chan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name - Caveat Emptor
Care should always be exercised when registering a domain name: DNS is case-insensitive and the modern trend of words run together with i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domain Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Domain Name - Commercial Resale Of Domain Names
An economic effect of the widespread usage of domain names has been the resale market for generic domain names that has sprung up in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Future
At the 2000 Perl Conference, Jon Orwant made a case for a major new language initiative. This led to a decision to begin work on a redesi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Overview
The perlintro(1) man page states: Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perl: Encyclopedia Ii - Perl - Language Design
The design of Perl can be understood as a response to three broad trends in the computer industry: falling hardware costs, rising labor c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Verisign: Encyclopedia Ii - Verisign - Controversies
In recent years, VeriSign has faced some contentious issues with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the quasi-g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Verisign: Encyclopedia Ii - Verisign - Divisions
The Internet Services division includes Naming & Directory Services, which houses the domain name registry for .com and .net, as well...   » Read the article