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To help you understand the jargon used, we have put together a brief glossary of e-business terms.

eBusiness Glossar

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R

Reverse Auction

In this case, in contrast to a normal auction, commissions are auctioned within a (usually) fixed user group. This obliges the individual supplier to underbid the best current bid in order to win the order.

RSA

(Rivest, Shamir, Adleman) This is an asymmetric encryption mechanism that is named after its developers. The algorithm is based on the public key principle.