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Appendix B – Glossary
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ASCII
Short for American Standard Code for Information Interchange; a code for
information exchange between computers made by different companies; a
string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most
microcomputers.
Asymmetric Key Encryption System
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Also referred as the public key encryption system. It uses a pair of keys—a
private key and a public key—to encrypt and decrypt data.
The asymmetric algorithms are considered to be slower than the symmetric
algorithms for a comparable key size. Typically, the former are used for
encrypting the hash values and symmetric session keys (which are comparatively
much smaller in size than bulk data).
Bidirectional Code Generation
The Developer generates this code (Feature/License update [.upw], or New
License Addition [.nlf]) with a request code from the end user, and updates a
single key in field.
Block
A sequence of bits of fixed length; longer sequences of bits can be broken
down into blocks.
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Borland Package Library (BPL)
BPL is a special dynamic-link library (DLL) that is used for building Borland
applications; and contains modules to be shared across multiple projects.