Glossary61MAC Address: A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifierassigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment.MD5: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is a widely used cryptographic hash functionthat produces a 128-bit (16-byte) hash value.DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network configuration protocolfor hosts on Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Computers that are connected to IP networksmust be configured before they can communicate with other hosts.FTP: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files fromone host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. It is often usedto upload web pages and other documents from a private development machine to apublic web-hosting server.HTTP: The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed,collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of datacommunication for the World Wide Web.HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a combination of HypertextTransfer Protocol (HTTP) with SSL/TLS protocol. It provides encrypted communicationand secure identification 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 ofelectronic data.URL: A uniform resource locator or universal resource locator (URL) is a specificcharacter string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource.XML: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set ofrules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable andmachine-readable.