The PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and S/MIME (Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) are the security protocols designed to serve for securing the electronic mail facility. The prior difference between these protocols lies within their security mechanism type of algorithms used. PGP uses either digital certificates or key rings for building trust between the users. In contrast, S/MIME employs encryption, message digest and digital signatures. We are aware about the electronic mail services … [Read more...]

Hypertext and hyperlink are very much related terms but has a different meaning. The prior difference between the hypertext and hyperlink is that the hypertext is the non-linear representation of the data which when clicked redirects you to some other page. On the other hand, the hyperlink is the link embedded in the hypertext to which the control is transferred. As the whole, we can say that the hyperlink is a part of the hypertext. Similarly, these hyperlinks can be embedded in various … [Read more...]

The Blog and Vlog can be considered as the powerful marketing tools for corporates, companies and individual as well. Nowadays, blogging and vlogging are popular methods to earn money by writing contents or making videos. So, the major difference between blog and vlog is that blog is similar to a website where you can find the written content of some topic. On the other hand, in a vlog, the video on the particular topics are posted. Blogging and Vlogging mainly circles around the content. … [Read more...]

While using the Internet, we usually come up with terms like download and upload. But, what do these terms signify? The primary difference between the downloading and uploading is that the downloading means to copy something from other remote machine connected through some network or Internet, to the client machine (User's machine). In contradiction, uploading means to copy some file or data from the client's machine to the remote machine. The downloading and uploading speed varies most of … [Read more...]

The search engine and the web browser are the completely different technologies where the search engine used for searching some information over the Internet. On the other hand, the web browser is used for accessing the web pages and the HTML files. You must have heard the names of the softwares or applications like Google, Yahoo, Baidu, DuckDuckgo, etcetera. These are examples of search engines. Conversely, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer are examples of web … [Read more...]

Hypertext and hypermedia, are the techniques for linking non-linear information. The two terms are distinct in a manner that the hypertext allows only text to be hyperlinked while hypermedia could use various multimedia elements such as images, audio and video, in order to link the text and media over the World Wide Web. However, hypertext is a part of the hypermedia as hypermedia includes text, image, audio, video, etcetera. It all started with the advent of the new techniques to navigate … [Read more...]

Streaming and downloading are terms mostly used while using the internet. The prior difference between the two terms lies in the fact that how is the content is downloaded from the server to the end-user. Streaming means that the content is temporarily downloaded on the client's machine but reside in the streaming server. Conversely, the downloading means that complete content is copied and downloaded on the end user's machine. Both have certain merits and demerits, which we will discuss in … [Read more...]

The Website and Blogs are somewhat similar. There are very few differences between them, but these are differentiable. The major difference between website and blog is that a blog is more interactive, while a website is static or inactive. If we talk about blogs, the content of the blogs is frequently changed, and these are capable of providing the fresh and updated content each time a viewer visits the blog after a period of time. Conversely, this is not the case with the websites. The … [Read more...]

The cybersecurity and network security can be considered as the two sides of a coin. However, some experts believe that network security is a subpart or subdomain of the cyber-security. They mainly differ in the way that network security is implemented to protect internal information through inspecting employee activities and network access. In contrast, cybersecurity concentrates on external threats such as security breaches created by hackers attempting to infiltrate the network. The … [Read more...]

The MD5 and SHA1 are the hashing algorithms where MD5 is better than SHA in terms of speed. However, SHA1 is more secure as compared to MD5. The concept behind these hashing algorithms is that these are used to generate a unique digital fingerprint of data or message which is known as a hash or digest. The essential features of hash algorithms are: These functions cannot be reversed. Size of the digest or hash is always fixed and does not depend on the size of the data. It is … [Read more...]