Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System

Glossary

	It’s a thingy!
	--Prairie Barnes

Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)

A language used to define the structure and content of objects such as data records and protocol messages, along the lines of a super-duper version of the typedef in C, only a lot more powerful. ASN.1 was developed as part of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) environment, and was originally used for writing specifications. More recently, though, tools have been developed that will generate software from ASN.1.

Web reference: The ASN.1 Consortium (http://www.asn1.org/)

See Also Distinguished Encoding Rules.

Astoundium

The element of suprise.

Attacker

In this context, one who attacks a computer system either to gain access or, as in a “Denial of Service attack,” to cause ...