- 2FA
- In a second factor authentication method users are granted access to a service or an application after successfully presenting two or more pieces of information. Such factors usually are based on something you know, have or are.
- Certificate chain
- The certificate chain is a series of certificates, including the TLS certificate, intermediate certificates, and
root certificates. It forms a hierarchical chain of trust, ensuring the authenticity of the TLS certificate.
- CIDR Notation
- Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) is a representation of an IP address and its associated network
mask.
- Client
- client is a computer application that you use to connect your local computer to FileZilla Server/FileZilla Pro Enterprise Server. FileZilla, FileZilla Pro and FileZilla Pro Command Line are clients. Using it, you can add, delete, or edit files and/or directories on FileZilla Pro Enterprise Server.
- Distinguished Name
- A comma-separated sequence of relative distinguished names (RDN). Each RDN is a plus-separated set of attribute-value pairs. Each attribute is separated from its value by the equal sign.
- Download
- When files are transferred from FileZilla Server/ FileZilla Pro Enterprise Server to a local machine.
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol is a basic method for moving files between local and remote computers.
See FTP for more information.
- FTPS
- File Transfer Protocol with TLS is a secure version of File Transfer Protocol (standard FTP).
File transfers are encrypted between a client and FileZilla Pro Enterprise Server. See FTPS for
more information.
- NAT
- Network Address Translation. It is a method that modifies IP header information in transit, mapping an
internal IP address space to an external one, commonly implemented in routers.
- PEM
- Privacy Enhanced Mail. PEM is a file format commonly used for storing certificates, certificate chains,
and private keys. PEM-encoded files are base64-encoded ASCII, and they often have extensions like
.pem, .crt, .cer, and .key.
- PKCS#11:
- A Public-Key Cryptography Standard, also known as “Cryptoki”. It is an API used to communicate with
cryptographic security tokens such as smart cards, USB keys, and Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
- Port
- A port is a logical construct that identifies a specific process or a type of network service.
- Private key
- The private key is a cryptographic key used to secure communications. It works in conjunction with the
certificate chain, which includes the TLS certificate, to establish secure connections.
- Recursive
- In terms of FileZilla Server/ FileZilla Pro Enterprise Server, a recursive action on a directory affects all of its
subdirectories and files in them and so on.
- Service
- It is a background process executed by the operating system.
- SFTP
- SSH File Transfer Protocol is a method that FileZilla Server/ FileZilla Pro Enterprise Server can use to access
and transfer files on a server. It is based on Secure Socket Shell protocol, and it uses a server’s
SSH port.
- SSH
- Or Secure Shell, is a cryptographic network protocol used for secure data communication.
- TLS
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) encrypts communications between a client and FileZilla Server/ FileZilla Pro En-
terprise Server. This keeps the files that you’re transferring secure from eavesdroppers while
they’re in transit between your local computer and the server. TLS is used in FTPS connections.
- UNC
- Universal Naming Convention. A path format for identify resources in a network. On Windows the
format is \\server-name\resource-name.
- Upload
- When files are transferred from a local machine to FileZilla Server/ FileZilla Pro Enterprise Server.
- URI
- Universal Resource Identifiers: strings containing names or addresses identifying a resource
on the internet.
- User ID
- Also sometimes referred to as a User Name or User Identification. This is the string of text
that an application, server, or website recognize as belonging to a particular person. Some-
times your user ID will be your email address; sometimes just a string of characters, for exam-
ple janesmith98352.
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X.509
- A standard defining the format of a digital certificate containing an identity (a hostname, or an organization, or an individual) and a public key. It might be signed by a certificate authority or self-signed, and it
is used for securing communication over a network.
- Windows Service
- A Windows Service is an executable application that the operating system runs in background.
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