BCA Dictionary

The most recent version of the Internet Protocol, providing an identification and location system for computers on networks and routing traffic across the Internet.

A technique to bind a public key to an IPv6 address, allowing the address owner to prove address ownership without relying on a trusted third party.

An enhanced version of CGA that uses the Bitcoin blockchain to secure the binding between a public key and an IPv6 address.

A mechanism used in Bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies where nodes compete to solve a computationally intensive puzzle to validate transactions and create new blocks.

The rightmost 64 bits of an IPv6 address, used to identify the network interface on a link.

The leftmost 64 bits of an IPv6 address, used to identify the network to which an interface is connected.

A process in IPv6 where a node checks if an address it wishes to use is already in use on the link.

A data structure used in cryptography and computer science to efficiently verify the contents of large data structures.

A mathematical function that converts input data of arbitrary size to a fixed-size output, used in cryptography and data integrity verification.

In asymmetric cryptography, a publicly shareable key used to verify digital signatures or encrypt messages that can only be decrypted by the corresponding private key.