- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
A window designed to elicit a response from the user. See also alert.
Industry:Software; Computer
A collection of data used to verify the identity of the holder or sender of the certificate. A digital certificate must conform to some standard in order for the recipient to be able to interpret it. Mac OS X and iPhone OS support the X.509 standard for digital certificates. See also certificate chain.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of characters and the basic rules for their use in creating a visual depiction of language. Writing systems may differ in the direction in which their characters and lines run, the size of the character set used, and the context sensitivity of character selection. Writing systems include Roman, Japanese, Arabic, and Hebrew. Compare script system.
Industry:Software; Computer
A way to ensure the integrity of a message or other data using public key cryptography. To create a digital signature, the signer generates a message digest of the data and then uses a private key to encrypt the digest. The signature includes the encrypted digest and identifies the signer. Anyone wanting to verify the signature uses the signer’s digital certificate, which contains the public key needed to decrypt the digest and specifies the algorithm used to create the digest.
Industry:Software; Computer
A file-based enclosure that facilitates the transport of a directory structure on the Internet. Disk images can also be compressed to allow a product’s files to be placed on optical media.
Industry:Software; Computer
