Credit Report
A document reporting the credit history and current standing of a prospective buyer.
Credit Risk Score
A statistical summary of an analysis of the borrower's credit report. A numeric value is assigned to the calculation which examines various historic data and informational sources. It is important in determining the level of risk for a lender's assessment of a loan candidate.
Critical Mass
An interactive site with regular visitors and contributors.
Cross Elasticity
The degree to which one product may be substituted for another.
Cross Linking
Multiple websites all linking to each other.
Cross Selling
Encouraging existing customers to buy new products or services instead of more of what they purchased.
Cryptanalysis
Using weaknesses in the cyphering algorithm to decode cyphers. The science of recovering information from ciphers without knowledge of the key.
Cryptographic Primitives
Algorithms with basic cryptographic properties and their relationship to other cryptographic problems. For example, a one-way function is a function intended to be easy to compute but hard to invert. In general, for a cryptographic application to be secure (based on computational feasibility assumptions), one-way functions must exist.
Cryptography
The science of writing messages in secret code.
CSE
see Communications Security Establishment.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets. Used to easily design and edit webpage designs.
CTR
Click Through Rate.
Cursive
One of the five generic font categories, also know as Script.
Cusco
The name of the robot from viatecla.pt.
Cypherpunk
A Type One Anonymous Remailer which receives messages in plain text or encoded with PGP or GPG and forwards it after removing any identifying information from the header.
Cyber Stealth Marketing
Covert attempts to use the internet to boost brand image, to make websites appear to be more popular than they really are, or to manipulate search engine listings.
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