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- K56flex
- K56flex is a technology for achieving data transfer rates up to a
theoretical 56 kilobits per second
through a modem. Find
out more about K56flex.
- kbps
- Kbps is a measure of data transfer speed. Kbps is an acronym for
kilobits per second. One kbps is 1 000 bits per second. Find
out more about modem speed.
- keys, public and private
- Keys are codes used to encrypt
messages. In a system of encryption, the public key is known to everyone
and the private key is known only to the recipient of the encrypted
message. The message is encrypted with the recipient's public key. The
encrypted message can then only be decrypted
using the recipient's private key.
- kilobyte
- A kilobyte (Kb or K) is a thousand (kilo) bytes
of information, or, to be exact, 1024 bytes (2 to the power of 10 bytes).
A Web page usually contains between 15-25 Kb of data, including images.
Kilobyte is abbreviated as K or KB.
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