In the United States, a state regulatory body charged with regulating intrastate utilities, including telecommunications systems.
Note: In some states this regulatory function is performed by public service commissions or state corporation commissions.

1. Synonym certificate.
2. Contains the name of a user, the public key component of the user, and the name of the issuer who vouches that the public key component is bound to the named user. [INFOSEC-99]

A form of encryption that utilizes a unique pair of keys, one (the "public key") being openly known, and the other (the "private key"), being known only to the recipient of an encrypted message.
Note 1: At the recipient's discretion, the public key is made available to those who may have occasion to send an encrypted message to that recipient.… (Read More →)

In public-key cryptography, of the transmission protocol, the characteristic that facilitates verification, by the recipient of a message, of all public keys used in the intermediate relay steps involved in the transmission of the message.

Abbreviation for public utilities commission.

Power Usage Effectiveness

1. To request data from (a) another program, another computer or server, or (b) a data array within a program. [After Bahorsky]
2. Of or relating to the technology designed to pull data from a server. [After Bahorsky]

The maximum frequency difference between the local oscillator or clock and the reference frequency of a phase-locked loop over which the local oscillator can be locked.

A direct current (dc) that changes in value at regular or irregular intervals.
Note: A pulsating direct current may change in value, i.e., be always present but at different levels, or it may be a current that is interrupted completely at regular or irregular intervals, but when present, is always in the same direction.

1. A rapid, transient change in the amplitude of a signal from a baseline value to a higher or lower value, followed by a rapid return to the baseline value.
2. A rapid change in some characteristic of a signal, e.g., phase or frequency, from a baseline value to a higher or lower value, followed by a rapid return to… (Read More →)