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82 lines
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HTML
{% extends "global/layout.html" %}
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{% block title %}{{ _('Glossary') }}{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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{% trans -%}
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This table lists often-used terminology when discussing I2P and cryptography.
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{%- endtrans %}
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<table>
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<ul>
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<li>{% trans -%}I2P: Invisible Internet Project: a project meant to
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provide an anonymity layer, so user can communicate anonymously using a
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range of applications.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}Router: The core I2P software, which routes encrypted
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packets on the I2P network. All routers by default participate in the
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network, which both helps the network and provides cover traffic for any
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clients or servers connecting to the I2P network through the
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router.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}RouterIdentity: A collection of information required to
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communicate directly with a router, such as its IP address and listening
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port, public signing and encryption keys etc.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}Tunnel: An anonymous communication pathway between a
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client or server and the I2P network. Tunnels are unidirectional, so any
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one client or server must have at least two Tunnels - one for inbound
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traffic and one for outbound traffic.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}Destination: The cryptographic identity of a tunnel.
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These are the identities of clients and servers within the I2P network,
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and are analogous to the IP:port of a computer on the normal
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internet.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}LeaseSet: A collection of information required to
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communicate with a client or server at a particular Destination, such as
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the gateways of the inbound Tunnels for that
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Destination.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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</ul>
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</table>
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{% trans -%}This table lists definition of different networks and their components. These
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terms and the definitions provided are taken from
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<a href="https://decentpatterns.xyz/report/#key-terms">Decentralization Off The
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Shelf: 7 Maxims by Simply Secure</a>(used with permission).{%- endtrans %}
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<table>
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<ul>
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<li>{% trans -%}Decentralization: Network architecture that avoids
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reliance on a single party. Encompasses peer-to-peer, blockchain,
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federated, and distributed technologies that involve many individual
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users.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}Peer-to-Peer (p2p): Peers make a portion of their
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resources, such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth,
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directly available to other network participants, without the need for
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central coordination by servers or stable hosts. Popularized by
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BitTorrent, Napster, and Bitcoin.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}Federated: Federation allows separate deployments of a
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service to communicate with each other through a common protocol, for
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instance a mail server run by Google federates with a mail server run by
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Microsoft when you send an email from @gmail.com to @hotmail.com.
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Each deployment may host multiple users.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}Blockchain: A distributed ledger that can record
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transactions between multiple parties efficiently and in a verifiable
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and permanent way.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}Distributed systems: Academic topic within the
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discipline of Computer Science which is concerned with the design of
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computer systems that consist of many individual computers connected
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over a network. Peer-to-peer networks and blockchains are examples of
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distributed systems architectures.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}TCP/UDP: The two foundational transport protocols used
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on the Internet. Common protocols used to send data between two
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computers.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}DHT: Distributed hash table, used in some projects to
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connect peers to each other by storing information in the form of
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key-value pairs in a distributed manner.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}IP address: A number of a computer or network which is
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unique and thus can be used to address it.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}WebRTC: A protocol standard for establishing connections
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in a web browser where data passes directly between
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users.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}Hash: A number, usually displayed as a string of letters
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and numbers. It can serve as a ‘fingerprint’ uniquely identifying
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data.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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<li>{% trans -%}UX: User experience, the overall experience of a person
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using a product or a service, especially in terms of how easy it is to
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use.{%- endtrans %}</li>
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</ul>
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</table>
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{% endblock %}
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