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| Data Administrator | DA | The PEP role responsible for [data structuring](Data-structure) and management. |
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| Electronic Data Capturing system | EDC | (Third-party) software used to collect and store data, e.g. from academic research study subjects. PEP provides out-of-the-box integration with the [Castor EDC](https://www.castoredc.com/electronic-data-capture-system/). |
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| [ElGamal encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElGamal_encryption) | | The cryptographic algorithm used as a basis for PEP's polymorphism. |
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| encryption | | A technique to make information readable only to parties that are in possession of an associated secret. |
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| encryption | | A technique to make information readable only to parties that are in possession of an associated secret. Also see "polymorphic encryption". |
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| [enrollment](Access-control#enrollment) | | Providing a user (or other party) with the cryptographic materials required to perform actions in the PEP system. |
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| identifier | ID | A piece of information that uniquely denotes a single piece of data. The polymorphic pseudonym (PP) is PEP's primary [identifier type for rows](https://gitlab.pep.cs.ru.nl/pep-public/user-docs/-/wikis/Pseudonymization#identifiers-in-pep). |
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| Key Server | KS | A server involved in PEP's [access control](Access-control) mechanism. KS takes an OAuth token as input and produces enrollment data as output. |
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| ticket | | Proof of authorization to access specific data stored in PEP. Issued by (a combination of) Access Manager and Transcryptor, users must present their tickets to Storage Facility to gain access to data. |
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| Transcryptor | TS | A PEP service that cooperates with Access Manager (AM) to issue data access [tickets](Access-control#tickets). |
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| upload | | The act of storing data in PEP. |
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| user | | A person that interacts with the PEP software. |
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| user | | A person or party that interacts with the PEP software. |
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| user pseudonym | | An abbreviated form of the local pseudonym. | |
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