RFC (Request For Comments) is the mechanism through which the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) discusses networking technologies. Internet standards are often born out of RFC, some of the more well known standards to emerge …

Using multiple computers in a restricted area can be tricky as they often need their own peripheral devices directly attached, such as a keyboard, monitor, and mouse - even though these devices may be used …

When it comes to data cryptography, a number of methods are available including hash functions, authentication codes, steganography and block ciphers.
An example of a block cipher mechanism is Twofish, which is a license-free, un-patented, 128-bit …

There are a number of security mechanisms that can be used to implement a data security policy and six of the important mechanisms are Authentication, Non-Repudiation, Disclosure Protection, Integrity, PKI and Sandbox.
Authentication
Authentication is used to …

You may have an option on your Firewall to enable or disable RTSP Transformations, but what are they and should you disable or enable them?
RTSP or Real Time Streaming Protocol is detailed in RFC2326 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2326.txt) …

You may find on option on your firewall to drop source routed packets, but what are they and why would you drop them?
When sending and receiving information over a network connection data is broken …

In electronic mail terms the notion of a false negative is the result of an email that is rejected falsely but in a way that this rejection is unknown to the intended recipient leading to …

In cabling terms it is possible for the energy that is used to carry a signal travelling along one piece of cable to affect another nearby cable. This electromagnetic interference can have the side effect …

Fibre installations often consist of multiple cores (for example ours is eight core) but often few of these cores are used (we only use two). The others are only used in case of failure - …

Signal boosting technology is a concept that has been around for some time included in devices such as network repeaters and access base stations. Femtocell technology builds on signal boosting technology to produce localised low-powered …