Triton FT5000XP PC-BASED ATMS User Manual - Manual (Page 190)

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Glossary of Terms
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
The US government body responsible for approving US standards in many areas,
including computers and communications. ANSI is a member of ISO (International
Standards Organization). ANSI sells ANSI and ISO standards
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
A code for information exchange between computers made by different
companies; a string of 7 binary digits represent each character.
DES - Data Encryption Standard
A product cipher that operates on 64-bit blocks of data using a 56-bit key.
DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
A protocol that provides a means to dynamically allocate IP addresses to com-
puters on a local area network. The system administrator assigns a range of IP
addresses to DHCP and each client computer on the LAN has its TCP/IP soft-
ware configured to request an IP address from the DHCP server. The request
and grant process uses a lease concept with a controllable time period.
DNS – Domain Name Server
A general-purpose distributed, replicated, data query service chiefly used on
internet for translating host names into internet addresses. DNS can be configured
to use a sequence of name servers based on the domains in the name being
looked for until a match is found.
EBCDIC -Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code
A binary computer character code, representing 256 standard letters, numbers,
symbols, and control characters by means of eight binary digits.
ECB - Electronic CodeBook
EOR – End of Record
FIT - Financial Institution Data
Gateway
An interface between an information source and a worldwide web server. The
information source can be any system that can be accessed by a program running
on the web server.
HTML - HyperText Markup Language
The markup language used for creating documents on the World Wide Web.
IC - Integrated Circuit
A microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor;
a whole system rather than a single component.