Operation Manual

112 KEN! – Glossary
The name and the IP address of the POP3 server are included
in the documents containing the Internet access parameters
supplied by your E-mail or Internet provider.
SMTP server
SMTP is the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. SMTP is the stan-
dard protocol for exchanging E-mail in the Internet. SMTP de-
fines how two E-mail systems interact with each other and
what the control messages must look like. SMTP messages
consist of a header, which includes at least the IDs of the
sender and the recipient, and the actual message. The SMTP
server of your Internet provider is the server responsible for
sending your mail to the Internet.
The name and the IP address of the SMTP server are included
in the information about Internet access supplied by your In-
ternet provider.
Socks
Socket Secure Server; socks is a standard which grants com-
puters in the “internal network” access to resources outside
a firewall, whenever such Internet or TCP/IP services as FTP,
Telnet or WWW are used. SOCKS maintains the security con-
ditions guaranteed by the firewall.
SSL
Secure Socket Layer; protocol for the encryption of messag-
es in the Internet. SSL can be implemented in combination
with application programs like SMTP, Telnet, FTP and HTTP
and builds on TCP/IP. The protocol provides for complex 128-
bit encryption of the data transmitted in the Internet. High
security is guaranteed by the fact that the encryption key
must be re-determined individually and is saved on the us-
er's PC rather than being transmitted in the Internet.
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)
TCP/IP is the “language” of the Internet. TCP/IP designates
the totality of all protocols which facilitate data exchange in
the Internet. The protocols contained in TCP/IP include the
protocols for downloading files (FTP) and for handling E-mail