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End-to-End Solution (E2ES)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-03T21:11:09-0400

End-to-End Solution (E2ES) Return to Glossary An End-to-End Solution (E2ES) is a term that means that the provider of an application program, software and system will supply all the software as well as hardware requirements of the customer such that no other vendor is involved to meet the needs. E2ES includes installation, integration, and setup.

Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-03-26T20:35:12-0400

Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce) Return to Glossary e-Commerce (Electronic Commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services, or the transmitting of funds or data, over an electronic network, primarily the internet. These business transactions occur either as business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), consumer-to-consumer or consumer-to-business. The terms e-commerce and e-business are often used interchangeably. The term e-tail is also sometimes used in reference to the…

E-Government Act

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-03-26T21:04:39-0400

E-Government Act Return to Glossary The E-Government Act of 2002 (Pub.L. 107–347 (text) (PDF), 116 Stat. 2899, 44 U.S.C. § 101, H.R. 2458/S. 803), is a United States statute enacted on 17 December 2002, with an effective date for most provisions of 17 April 2003. Its stated purpose is to improve the management and promotion of electronic government services and processes by establishing a Federal Chief Information Officer within the Office of Management and Budget, and by establishing a fram…

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-03T19:07:05-0400

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Return to Glossary Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) is a card-based system similar to a debit card that allows recipients of government assistance such as food stamps to pay retailers directly for their purchases. State governments provide benefits and track their use via the EBT system.

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-03T16:57:33-0400

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Return to Glossary Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Source:

Economies of Scale

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-03T19:54:33-0400

Economies of Scale Return to Glossary Economies of Scale are cost advantages reaped by companies when production becomes efficient. Companies can achieve economies of scale by increasing production and lowering costs. This happens because costs are spread over a larger number of goods. Costs can be both fixed and variable.

Electronic Funds Transfer Act

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-03-30T20:32:05-0400

Electronic Funds Transfer Act Return to Glossary The Electronic Funds Transfer Act was passed by congress in 1978 to regulate the then growing use of electronic transfer of funds. The act implemented requirements so that banks have to notify their customers of any policies regarding electronic transfer of funds. A model statement is even included in the act in order to regulate the language in which policies would be presented to consumers. Banks are also held liable in the event that inform…

Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) Return to Glossary Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) is a design document providing information to the Ethereum community, or describing a new feature for Ethereum or its processes or environment. The EIP should provide a concise technical specification of the feature and a rationale for the feature. The EIP author is responsible for building consensus within the community and documenting dissenting opinions.

Electrotechnology

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-14T10:59:20-0400

Electrotechnology Return to Glossary Electrotechnology is used to describe the physics of electrical circuits, electromagnetism and corresponding application in both electrical engineering and electronic engineering. Electrotechnology can encompass specialisms such as; Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Instrumentation engineering, Telecommunication engineering, and Computer engineering.

Europay, MasterCard® and Visa (EMV)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Europay, MasterCard® and Visa (EMV) Return to Glossary Europay, MasterCard® and Visa® (EMV) refer to the increased security of payment card transactions through the use of a chip embedded in credit, debit, and prepaid cards. Chip cards are extremely difficult to duplicate, and paired with additional layers of security such as

Encryption

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-18T08:29:59-0400

Encryption Return to Glossary Encryption is the process of using an Encryption Algorithm or Cryptographic Algorithm to transform information to make it unreadable for unauthorized users. This cryptographic method protects sensitive Plaintext such as credit card numbers by encoding and transforming information into unreadable

Encryption Algorithm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-18T07:59:24-0400

Encryption Algorithm Return to Glossary An Encryption Algorithm is a component for electronic data transport security. Actual mathematical steps are taken and enlisted when developing algorithms for encryption purposes, and varying block ciphers are used to encrypt electronic data or numbers.

End-to-End Testing (E2E Testing)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T11:54:56-0400

End-to-End Testing (E2E Testing) Return to Glossary End-to-End Testing (E2E testing) refers to a software testing method that involves testing an application’s workflow from beginning to end. This method basically aims to replicate real user scenarios so that the system can be validated for integration and

Endianness

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Endianness Return to Glossary endianness is the byte order chosen for all digital computing made in a specific computer system and dictates the architecture and low-level programming approach to be used for that system. Source: Endian

Endpoint

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-15T09:28:19-0400

Endpoint Return to Glossary An Endpoint is any device that is physically an end point on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Laptops, desktops, mobile phones, tablets, servers, and virtual environments can all be considered endpoints. When one considers a traditional home antivirus, the desktop, laptop, or smartphone that antivirus is installed on is the endpoint.

Entity

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Entity Return to Glossary The system components are called Entities because they all inherit from the Entity class. Each Entity has specialised QoS policies. An Entity may have a Listener, a call back interface for notifications about changes in the Entity’s state or, a wait interface (using WaitSets) for detecting changes in the Entity’s state.

Entity Integrity

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Entity Integrity Return to Glossary Entity Integrity relies on the creation of primary keys, or unique values that identify pieces of data, to ensure that data isn't listed more than once and that no field in a table is null. It's a feature of relational systems which store data in tables that can be linked and used in a variety of ways.

Environment Variables

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Environment Variables Return to Glossary Environment Variables are values that impact the processes and behavior of running computer systems and OS environments. Running programs may access environment variable values for configuration purposes. Source:

End-of-life (EoL)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-17T14:46:50-0400

End-of-life (EoL) Return to Glossary End-of-life (EoL) is a term used by software vendors indicating that it is ending or limiting its support on the product and/or version to shift focus on their newer products and/or version. Most vendors define a product lifecycle which consists of several phases during which a product moves, where ‘end-of-life’ usually means the last phase (depending on the software vendor). These phases will determine the type of support it’s customers will receive. Exa…

Ethereum Request for Comment (ERC)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-03T12:26:05-0400

Ethereum Request for Comment (ERC) Return to Glossary Ethereum Request for Comment (ERC) is a technical document used by smart contract developers at Ethereum. They define a set of rules required to implement tokens for the Ethereum ecosystem. These documents are usually created by developers, and they include information about

Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-05T19:08:05-0400

Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) Return to Glossary An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD), also known as an Entity Relationship Model, is a graphical representation depicting relationships among people, objects, places, concepts or events within an Information Technology (IT) system. An ERD uses data modeling techniques for defining business processes and serve as the foundation for a

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Return to Glossary Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a method of efficiently utilizing people, hardware and software to increase productivity and profit, thus simplifying a company’s business processes. ERP may include many software applications or a single (but more complex) software package that smoothly disseminates data required by two or more unique business departments.

Ethereum Wire Protocol (ETH)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-08T18:45:17-0400

Ethereum Wire Protocol (ETH) Return to Glossary Ethereum Wire Protocol (ETH) or eth, is a Protocol on the RLPx Transport Layer that facilitates exchange of Ethereum blockchain information between Peers. Once a connection is established, a Status message must be sent. Following the reception of the Peer's Status message, the Ethereum session is active, and any other message may be sent.

Ether

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Ether Return to Glossary Ether is the native token of the Ethereum blockchain which is used to pay for transaction fees, miner rewards and other services on the network. Source:

Ethereum

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Ethereum Return to Glossary Ethereum is an open software platform based on blockchain technology that enables developers to write smart contracts and build and deploy decentralized applications.. Source:

Ethereum Classic

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T11:25:15-0400

Ethereum Classic Return to Glossary Ethereum Classic is a split from an existing cryptocurrency, Ethereum after a hard fork. Source:

Ethereum Memory

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-12-29T00:26:05-0400

Ethereum Memory Return to Glossary Ethereum Memory (or Memory) is a byte-array. Memory starts off zero-size, but can be expanded in 32-byte chunks by simply accessing or storing memory at indices greater than its current size. Since memory is contiguous, it does save gas to keep it packed and shrink its size, instead of having large patches of zeros. It's cheaper to have an array of length 2 storing 2 values, than an array of length 1000 where the values are at the ends of the array and the…

Ethereum Node

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T00:02:43-0400

Ethereum Node Return to Glossary An Ethereum Node is a device/program that communicates with the Ethereum network. Nodes are also known as clients. Software that can act as an Ethereum node includes Parity and Go-ethereum (geth). This software mostly, if not always, also provides wallet functionality (software that allows users to perform transactions on the

Ethereum Storage

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-12-29T00:26:45-0400

Ethereum Storage Return to Glossary Ethereum Storage (or Storage) is a key/value store where keys and values are both 32 bytes. It is sparse (like a hash table), and there are no inherent gas savings from having two 32 byte values next to each other. Storing one of the values at key 1 and the other at key 1000, costs the same amount of gas as storing them at key 1 and key 2. (Gas savings from packing storage are still possible, such as fitting 2

Ethernet

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Ethernet Return to Glossary Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies commonly used in Local Area Network (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN).[1] It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1983 as IEEE 802.3. Ethernet has since retained a good deal of backward compatibility and has been refined to support higher bit rates, a greater number of nodes, and longer link distances.

Evidence

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Evidence Return to Glossary Evidence is information used to support a claim. Ideally, evidence should be objective, reproducible, repeatable, and non-disputable. Evidence is key to making a credible assurance case. Without evidence, there is no way to substantiate the claim. The sources of evidence will depend in part on the

Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-03T12:26:05-0400

Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) Return to Glossary The Ethereum Virtual Machin (EVM) is a runtime environment for the Ethereum blockchain. It allows smart contract code to run by compiling to EVM bytecode. EVM plays a core role in the Ethereum blockchain to ensure a trustless mechanism without having any central administrator. EVM keeps each

Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) Bytecode

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-06-01T12:54:54-0400

Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) Bytecode Return to Glossary Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) Bytecode is a low-level programming language that is compiled from a high-level programming language such as solidity. EVM is a Virtual Machine (VM) residing between the OSI Operating System (OS) and Application Layer layers to mitigate OS dependency. Thankfully to EVM, Ethereum smart contract can be run on almost any computer. If you are a

EVM Code

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-03T15:36:10-0400

EVM Code Return to Glossary EVM Code is the programming language in which accounts on the Ethereum blockchain can contain code. The EVM code associated with an account is executed every time a message is sent to that account, and has the ability to read/write storage and itself send messages. Source:

Exception

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-11-05T15:36:08-0400

Exception Return to Glossary An Exception, also known as a Fault, is an abnormal or unprecedented event that occurs after the execution of a software program or application. It is a runtime error of an undesired result or event affecting normal program flow. Source:

Exception Handler

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-11-05T15:42:17-0400

Exception Handler Return to Glossary An Exception Handler is code that stipulates what a program will do when an anomalous event (i.e., Exception) disrupts the normal flow of that program’s instructions. An Exception is an unplanned event that occurs while a program is executing and disrupts the flow of its instructions.

Executable File

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T11:52:52-0400

Executable File Return to Glossary Executable File is a file in a format that the computer can directly execute. Unlike source files, executable files cannot be read by humans. To transform a source file into an executable file, you need to pass it through a Compiler or assembler.

Exploit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-12T13:42:38-0400

Exploit Return to Glossary An Exploit is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or a sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability in an application or a system to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur. The name comes from the English verb to exploit, meaning “to use something to one’s own advantage”. Basically, this means that the target of an attack suffers from a design flaw that allows people to create the means to access it and use it in his interest.…

Exploitable

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-25T12:33:17-0400

Exploitable Return to Glossary Exploitable is a Weakness or flaw in a Component is Exploitable if it enables the Component to be manipulated in an unintended or unexpected way by an attacker to negatively impact Confidentiality, Integrity, and/or Availability. Source:

Glossary E Terms

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400

Glossary E Terms Return to Glossary Note: You can add new terms beginning with 'E' here List of Words Return to Top * E-Government Act * Economies of Scale * Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) * Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) * Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce) * Electronic Funds Transfer Act * Electrotechnology * Encryption * Encryption Algorithm * End-of-life (EoL) * End-to-End Solution (E2ES) * End-to-End Testing (E2E Testing) * Endianness * Endpoint * Enterprise Resource Pla…