CSP Vocab 1-4

a broad term for datasets so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate.

• Big Data

• metadata

• databases

• server farm

a predication made by Gordon Moore in 1965 that computing power will double every 1.5-2 years, it has remained more or less true ever since

• Moore's Law

• Linear Power Theorem

• Computing Paradox

• Gordon's Axiom

A business/corporate term for a one-page document that summarizes a large issue, topic or plan.

• One-pager

• Slick

• Rap Sheet

• Corporate Manifest

a technique for encryption that shifts the alphabet by some number of characters

• Caesar Cipher

• anagram

• mock cipher

• cryptex

the generic term for a technique (or algorithm) that performs encryption

• Cipher

• Modular arithmetic

• cryptography

• mask

a process that reverses encryption, taking a secret message and reproducing the original plain text

• Decryption

• Reversal

• Transcription

• Uncipher

a process of encoding messages to keep them secret, so only "authorized" parties can read it.

• Encryption

• Coding

• Secrifying

• Obscuring

an encryption technique that maps each letter of the alphabet to a randomly chosen other letters of the alphabet.

• Random Substitution Cipher

• Vigenere cipher

• Caesar cipher

• Quick encryption

a "hard' problem for a computer is one in which it cannot arrive at a solution in a reasonable amount of time.

• Computationally Hard

• Mathematically improbable

• Quantum-generated

• Unhackable

used in public key encryption, it is scheme in which the key to encrypt data is different from the key to decrypt.

• asymmetric encryption

• dual encryption

• parallel encryption

• full spectrum encryption