Glossary49GlossaryMAC Address: A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned tonetwork interfaces for communications on the physical network segment.MD5: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is a widely used cryptographic hash function thatproduces a 128-bit (16-byte) hash value.DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network configuration protocol forhosts on Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Computers that are connected to IP networks must beconfigured before they can communicate with other hosts.FTP: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from onehost to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. It is often used to uploadweb pages and other documents from a private development machine to a public web-hostingserver.HTTP: The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed,collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communicationfor the World Wide Web.HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a combination of Hypertext TransferProtocol (HTTP) with SSL/TLS protocol. It provides encrypted communication and secureidentification of a network web server.TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a simple protocol to transfer files. It has beenimplemented on top of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) using port number 69.AES: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a specification for the encryption of electronic data.URL: A uniform resource locator or universal resource locator (URL) is a specific character stringthat constitutes a reference to an Internet resource.XML: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules forencoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.