Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Electronic signature
A generic term describing all methods by which a person can sign an electronic message or record. Different forms created by different technologies exist including: a name typed at the end of an email message by the sender; a personal identification number (ie PIN used for bank accounts); a digitised image of a hand written signature attached to electronic documents; a biometric-based identifier (eg a fingerprint or retinal scan) or a Digital Signature.
