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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RDT

RDT- Remote Data Transmission - General term for data transmission with a modem or other suitable device.

RSA

In cryptology, RSA is an algorithm for public-key encryption. It was the first algorithm known to be suitable for signing as well as encryption, and one of the first great advances in public key cryptography. RSA is still widely used in electronic commerce protocols, and is believed to be secure given sufficiently long keys.

The algorithm was described in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman at MIT; the letters RSA are the initials of their surnames.

RSA involves two keys: public key and private key (a key is a constant number later used in the encryption formula.) The public key can be known to everyone and is used to encrypt messages. These messages can only be decrypted by use of the private key. In other words, anybody can encrypt a message, but only the holder of a private key can actually decrypt the message and read it.