Lexicon

If the CEO dispatches his data exclusively via AS2 (to respond to the casual EDI) instead of via FTP or OFTP, uses AES or DES and shares his signature based upon PGP with his business partners - then maybe the time is right to have a look at our i-effect^® lexicon.


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DB/2

DB2 is IBM´s family of information management software products. Most often, though, when people say DB2 they are referring to IBM´s flagship relational database management system, DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB).

DBCS

DBCS stands for Double Byte Character Set which means mean a character set in which all characters (including all control characters) are encoded in two bytes.

DES

The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a block cipher (a form of shared secret encryption) that was selected by the National Bureau of Standards as an official Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for the United States in 1976 and which has subsequently enjoyed widespread use internationally. It is based on a symmetric-key algorithm that uses a 56-bit key.

DES is now considered to be insecure for many applications. The algorithm is believed to be practically secure in the form of Triple DES, although there are theoretical attacks. In recent years, the cipher has been superseded by the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).