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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Mapping

Mapping is the process of converting data from one data model into another in order to read, analyse or save them. The term mapping can also be used for the file that defines and controles this process.

MD5

In cryptography, MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a widely-used cryptographic hash function with a 128-bit hash value. As an Internet standard (RFC 1321), MD5 has been employed in a wide variety of security applications, and is also commonly used to check the integrity of files.

MD5 was designed by Ronald Rivest in 1991 to replace an earlier hash function, MD4. In 1996, a flaw was found with the design of MD5; while it was not a clearly fatal weakness, cryptographers began to recommend using other algorithms, such as SHA-1 (recent claims suggest that SHA-1 has been broken, however). In 2004, more serious flaws were discovered making further use of the algorithm for security purposes questionable.

The 128-bit (16-byte) MD5 hashes (also termed message digests) are typically represented as a sequence of 32 hexadecimal digits.

MDN

A return receipt is a postal service document confirming the arrival of a message or parcel at its intended destination. Internationally, the service is known as avis de réception (AR), but in some English-speaking countries, acknowledgement of receipt is used. Return receipts for email are called message disposition notifications. Their format and usage is outlined in RFC 2298.

MIME

MIME - „Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions” - encoding process that is used to transmit non 7 bit data with the 7Bit transmission protocol SMTP. Data will be encoded with a filter function so that they can be forwarded with an inadequate protocol(SMTP) and the original contents can be decoded by the recipient. MIME was defined by the Internet RFC 1521. RFC 1767 describes how EDI messages can be embedded in Internet mails(SMTP) using MIME.