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P

P Model

P&D

P3P

PA

PAA

PABX

Packet

Packet Assembler/disassembler

Packet Filtering

Packet inspection

Packet Switched Networks

Packet Switching

Packet Transfer Mode

Packet-Mode Terminal

Packet-Switched Data Transmission Service

Packet-Switching Network

PAD

PAE

Page In

Pain In The Net

Paired Disparity Code

PAL

PAP

Paperwork Reduction Act

Parallel Computer

Parallel Information Unit

Parallel Processing

Parallel Transmission

Parallel-To-Serial Converter

Param

PARC

Parity

Parkinson's Law Of Data

Parm

Parse

Partial Ordering

Partitioned Security Code

Partitioned Security Mode

Pascal

Pass

Passive fingerprinting

Passive Station

Passive Wiretapping

Passwd

Password Authentication Protocol (PAP)

Password Dialogue

Password Length Equation

Password Length Parameter

Password Management

Password Management Guideline

Password System

Password-cracking software

Pastie

PAT (Port address translation)

Patch

Patch test system

Path

Patriot Act of 2001

PAX

Payload

Payware

PBD

PBX

PC

PCA

PC-Ism

PCS

PCZ

PD

Pdl

PDN

PDP-10

PDP-20

PDR

PDS

PDU

Peek

Peer-Entity Authentication

Peer-To-Peer Security

Pencil And Paper

Penetration Paths

Penetration Profile

Penetration Signature

Penetration Study

Penetration Testing

Peon

PERC

Perceived Threat

Percent of disruption

Perf

Perfect Programmer Syndrome

Performance Parameter

Peril

Periods Processing

Peripheral Device

Peripheral Devices

Peripheral Equipment

Perl

Person Of No Account

Personal Identification Number

Personal Identification Number (PIN)

Personal Identifier

Personal Password

Personnel Screening

Personnel Security

Personnel Security Policies And Guidance

PES

Pessimizing Compiler

Peta

PETSCII

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)

Phage

Phase

Phase Of The Moon

Phase-Locked Loop

Phonetic Alphabet

Photosensitive Recording

Phreak

Physical Compromise

Physical Control Space

Physical Control Space/physically Controlled Space (PCs)

Physical Memory Location Of The Instruction

Physical Security

Pico

PID (Process ID)

Pig, Run Like A

Piggy Back Entry

PIN (Personal Identification Number)

Ping

Ping (Packet INternet Groper)

Pink-Shirt Book

PIP

Piracy

Pistol

PIX

Pizza, ANSI Standard

PKA

PKC

PKI (Public key infrastructure)

PKSD

PL

PL/1

PLA

Plain Text/plain-Text

Plan-protect-respond (PPR)

Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)

Platform-Specific Security

Platinum-Iridium

Playpen

Playte

Plokta

Plonk

Plotter

PLSDU

Plugh

PM

P-Mail

PMD

PMO

PMP

Pnambic

PNEK

PNET

Pod

Point Of Presence

Point-And-Drool Interface

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)

Poisson Function

Poke

Policy

Policy Development

Policy Enforcement

Policy-based audits

Poll

Polygraphic Processing

POM

Pop

POP (Post Office Protocol)

POPJ

Port address translation (PAT)

Port-switching application

Poser

Position Sensitivity

Positive Control

Positive Control Material

Post

Post Office Protocol (POP)

Posting

Postmortem analysis

Potential Threat

Power Controls (e. G. , UPS, Emergency Power)

Power Line Conduction

Power Line Modulation

Powerline Conduction

PPL

PPN

PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)

PPS

PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol)

PPTP access concentrator

Practice Dangerous To Security

PRBAC

Precedence Lossage

Predicated Event

Preferred Products List (PPL)

Preliminary Technical Report

Prepend

Preproduction Model

Preserving evidence

President's Council On Integrity And Efficiency

Prestidigitization

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

Pretty Pictures

Preventative Controls

Preventive Maintenance

Price

Primary Distribution

Primary RED Conductor

Primary Station

Primary Substation

Prime authentication problem

Principle of least permissions

Principle Of Least Privilege

Principles Of Control

Print Suppression

Print Suppression/print Suppress

Printing Discussion

Priority Interrupt

Priority Message

Privacy

Privacy Act Guidelines

Privacy Act Of 1974

Privacy disclosure statements

Privacy Protection

Privacy Transformation

Private Automatic Branch Exchange

Private Automatic Exchange

Private Branch Exchange

Private Branch Exchange Security

Private Communication

Private Exchange

Private IP addresses

Private Key Cryptology

Private network

Private Networks

Private port numbers

Privilege Levels

Privilege Profile

Privileged Data

Privileged Instructions

Privileged Process

Privileges (Class, Nodes)

Privity

Probes

Procedural Security

Procedure-Oriented Language

Process

Process Computer System

Process Control

Process Control Equipment

Process Control System

Process ID (PID)

Process Interface System

Process Isolation

Process Manager

Process Signaling

Processing performance

Processing Unit

Procurement Lead Time

Product Questionnaire

Production Model

Production server

Professional Interfaces

Profile

Proglet

Program

Programmable Logic Array

Programmable Read-Only Memory

Programmer's Cheer

Programming Fluid

Programming Language

Programming System

PROM

Promiscuous mode

Propagation Of Risk

Propagation vector

Property Protection Area

Property Star Property

PROPIN

Proprietary Data

Proprietary Information

Protect As Restricted Data

Protected Communications

Protected Distributed System

Protected Distribution System (PDS)

Protected Information

Protected Services

Protected Wireline Distribution System

Protection Bits

Protection Critical

Protection Equipment

Protection From Malicious Code

Protection Index

Protection Mechanisms

Protection Philosophy

Protection Ring

Protection-Critical Portions Of The TCB

Protection-Critical Portions Of Trusted Computing Base

Protective Features

Protective Measures

Protective Mechanism

Protective Packaging

Protective Technologies

Protective Technology

Protective Technology/Package Incident

Protocol Data Unit

Protocol enforcement

Protocol stack monitors

Provably Secure Operating System

Provocative Maintenance

Prowler

Proxy

Ps

PSDU

Pseudo

Pseudorandom Noise

Pseudorandom Number Sequence

PSL

PSN

PSOS

PSTN

Psychedelicware

Psyton

PTR

PTT

Public Cryptography

Public Data Network

Public Data Transmission Service

Public Domain Software

Public Key Cryptography (PKC)

Public Key Encryption

Public key infrastructure (PKI)

Public Law 100-235

Public Switched Network (PSN)

Public Switched NS/EP Telecommunications Services

Public Switched Telephone Network

Public Utility Commission

PUC

Puff

Punt

Purge

Purging

Purging Magnetic Media

Purpose And Scope

Push

PUT

PVC

PWA

PWDS

PX

Pascal

n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967--68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming. This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline language). The hackish point of view on Pascal was probably best summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&R fame) entitled "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language", which was turned down by the technical journals but circulated widely via photocopies. It was eventually published in "Comparing and Assessing Programming Languages", edited by Alan Feuer and Narain Gehani (Prentice-Hall, 1984). Part of his discussion is worth repeating here, because its criticisms are still apposite to Pascal itself after ten years of improvement and could also stand as an indictment of many other bondage-and-discipline languages. At the end of a summary of the case against Pascal, Kernighan wrote 9. There is no escape This last point is perhaps the most important. The language is inadequate but circumscribed, because there is no way to escape its limitations. There are no casts to disable the type-checking when necessary. There is no way to replace the defective run-time environment with a sensible one, unless one controls the compiler that defines the "standard procedures". The language is closed. People who use Pascal for serious programming fall into a fatal trap. Because the language is impotent, it must be extended. But each group extends Pascal in its own direction, to make it look like whatever language they really want. Extensions for separate compilation, FORTRAN-like COMMON, string data types, internal static variables, initia