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Glossary
access control
The ability of a system to grant or limit access to specific data for specific clients or
groups of clients.
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
The group of access directives that you define. The directives grant levels of access
to specific data for specific clients, or groups of clients, or both.
Advanced Encryption Standard
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a new cryptographic algorithm that has
been approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a
replacement for DES. The AES standard is available in Federal Information
Processing Standards Publication 197. The AES algorithm is a symmetric block
cipher that can process data blocks of 128 bits, using cipher keys with lengths of
128, 192, and 256 bits.
AES
See Advanced Encryption Standard
attribute
An item of information that describes some aspect of an entry in an LDAP
directory. An entry comprises a set of attributes, each of which belongs to an object
class. Moreover, each attribute has both a type, which describes the kind of
information in the attribute, and a value, which contains the actual data.