AES Advanced Encryption Standard APOP Authenticated Post Office Protocol
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One
ATM Automatic Teller Machine
BASR Board of Advanced Studies and Research
BDS UNIX UNIX version developed at the University of California, Berkeley
COM Component Object Model CPU Central Processing Unit CRLF Carriage Return Line Feed DER Distinguished Encoding Rules DES Data Encryption Standard DOS Disk Operating System DSA Digital Signature Algorithm ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ECIES Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme EMAIL Electronic Mail
ERR Error
FAQ Frequently Asked Question
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard
GB Gigabyte
GIF Graphical Interchange Format GUI Graphical User Interface
HDD Hard Disk Drive
IP Internet Protocol
IPCE Interprocess Communication Environment ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
IT Information Technology
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
LAN Local Area Network
MAC Message Authentication Code
MB Mega Byte
MDC Manipulation Detection Code
MHz Megahertz
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIPS Million Instructions per Second MTS Message Transport System
PC Personal Computer PGP Pretty Good Privacy
PIN Personal Identification Number PKI Public Key Infrastructure POP Post Office Protocol
POP3 Post Office Protocol version 3
RAM Random Access Memory
RETR Retrieve
ROM Read Only Memory
RSA Rivest Shamir Adleman
RSAES-OAEP RSA Encryption Scheme - Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding
SHA-1 Secure Hash Algorithm One SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SSL Secure Socket Layer
SUN Sun Microsystems Inc. TAWIN An Image capturing API TCP Transport Control Protocol TIFF Tagged Image File Format
UA User Agent
VB Visual Basic
WAN Wide Area Network
XML Extensible Markup Language
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