Computer Protocols- TCP/IP, POP, SMTP, HTTP, FTP and More. In order for computers to communicate with one another, standard methods of information transfer and processing have been devised. These are referred to as protocols and some of the more common ones such as TCP, IP, UDP, POP, SMTP, HTTP, and FTP are discussed here.
One of the possible uses for this function is as a hash key. See the notes at the beginning of this section about storing hash values efficiently. You can also use SHA1() as a cryptographic function for storing passwords. SHA() is synonymous with SHA1() .
The keys which EFS uses to encrypt and decrypt data, is a public and private key pair, and a per file encryption key. EFS generates a file encryption key (FEK) which is a symmetric encryption key to encrypt the data. The File Encryption Key (FEK) is next encrypted by means of asymmetric encryption using the userâs public key. Asymmetric encryption actually uses a public and private key pair for stronger security.