| Transmission | See TCP/IP. | 
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| UUCP Mapping | |
| Project | another UNIX machine by means of serial lines. The mapping project is an effort to provide a | 
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| Verisign | A dominant certificate authority on the internet, though many of its certificates are signed as RSA | 
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 | Data Security. Early versions of Microsoft and Netscape browsers had RSA Data Security | 
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 | configured as the only trusted certificate authority. This mandated that users who want to use | 
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 | certificates on the Internet had to obtain them from Verisign and use server software accredited | 
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 | by Verisign. Current versions of the Microsoft and Netscape browsers allow users to add new | 
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 | certificate authorities. As older versions of the browsers are replaced, new certificate authorities | 
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| virtual host | An alias name assigned to an FTP Server. | 
| WAIS | Wide Area Information Servers. A distributed information retrieval system. WAIS offers natural | 
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 | language input, indexed searching, and a relevance feedback mechanism that allows current | 
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 | search results to influence future search results. | 
| Web server | A server process, running at a Web site, that sends out Web pages in response to HTTP requests | 
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