Reference
Glossary
Words and Phrases
- 501(c)(3)
- The section of the United States tax code for charities. Gifts to a 501(c)(3) public charity can usually be deducted from your taxes.
- Asymmetric encryption
- Encryption that uses two matching keys: a public key that locks data and a private key that unlocks it.
- Board of Governors
- The group that oversees Library of Code, sets its policies, and checks that it is run well.
- Certificate authority
- A trusted organization that issues digital certificates.
- Checksum
- A short code calculated from a file. If the file changes, the checksum changes, so you can tell whether a file was altered.
- Code signing
- Adding a digital signature to software so people can check who made it and that nobody changed it afterwards.
- Digital certificate
- An electronic document that proves who owns a key, like an ID card for a website, person, or program.
- Digital signature
- A mark made with a private key that proves who created a file or message and that it has not changed.
- Discord
- A free chat app. Our community talks and helps each other there.
- Encryption
- Scrambling data so only someone with the right key can read it.
- Indemnify
- To agree to cover another party’s costs if a legal claim is made against them because of you.
- Key server
- A public website that stores PGP public keys so others can find them.
- OpenPGP
- The open standard version of PGP, used to encrypt and sign messages and files.
- Private key
- The secret half of a key pair. Never share it.
- Public charity
- A type of nonprofit that gets its support from the public. The IRS decides which groups qualify.
- Public key
- The half of a key pair you can share. Others use it to encrypt messages to you or check your signatures.
- Radix-64
- A way of writing binary data using plain text characters so it can be pasted into email.
- Tax-deductible
- An amount you may subtract from your income when you file taxes, which can lower what you owe.
- x86, ARM, and RISC-V
- Families of computer processors. Software is built for one family, such as x86 for most desktop PCs or ARM for most phones.
Abbreviations
- AA
- the middle conformance level of WCAG
- AAA
- the highest conformance level of WCAG
- AB
- Bachelor of Arts
- ACM
- Association for Computing Machinery
- BoG
- Board of Governors
- CA
- certificate authority
- D-U-N-S
- Data Universal Numbering System
- DBA
- doing business as
- DNS
- Domain Name System
- e.g.
- for example
- ECC
- elliptic-curve cryptography
- EIN
- Employer Identification Number
- EMEA
- Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- EU
- European Union
- FAQ
- frequently asked questions
- FAQs
- frequently asked questions
- FL
- Florida
- GNU
- GNU’s Not Unix, a free software project
- GnuPG
- GNU Privacy Guard
- HTTP
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- ID
- identification
- IEEE
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Inc.
- Incorporated
- IRC
- Internal Revenue Code
- IRS
- Internal Revenue Service
- IT
- information technology
- LLC
- limited liability company
- LOC
- Library of Code
- NIST
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Portable Document Format
- PGP
- Pretty Good Privacy
- RFC
- Request for Comments, a document that defines an internet standard
- s.a.
- société anonyme, a public limited company
- s.r.o.
- společnost s ručením omezeným, a Czech limited liability company
- S/MIME
- Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
- SSL/TLS
- Secure Sockets Layer / Transport Layer Security
- USA
- United States of America
- VPNs
- virtual private networks
- WCAG
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines