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Virtual Private Network
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VPN - A network in which private traffic is encrypted and sent over less private networks. Because the data is encrypted before being placed on the network, virtually secure ("private") connections can be enjoyed over public WANs, even over the Internet. This is sometimes called tunneling, because a private encrypted channel is tunneled through a public channel.
At this writing, the trend is to tunnel VPN traffic through public Internet connections using SSL to do the encryption.
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Encryption
Decryption
Cryptography
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