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out-of-band en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Taking place outside of a defined telecommunications frequency band.
    • In this additional spectrum, in-band signaling was sent down the wires outside the frequencies used for conversation. Actually, the signals were sent across the 3,500- and 3,700-Hz frequencies. Although these worked and were not in the talk path (out of the band) they were limited in the number of tones that could be sent. 2001, Regis J. Bates, Donald W. Gregory, Voice and Data Communications Handbook, page 841:
  2. (broadly) Transmitted on a different channel, or by a different method, from that of the primary communication channel.
  3. (qualifier:computer security) Relating to communication, such as identity verification, via a method other than the primary means of accessing the software.
    • Defaulting to chaos still causes a lot of disruption, and would require out-of-band social coordination to resolve, but it places a much larger barrier in front of the attacker, and makes attackers much less confident that they will be able to get away with a clean victory, making them much less motivated to even try to start an attack. 2020, Vitalik Buterin, “A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation”, in vitalik.ca, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2020:
    • One great way of solving the phishing problem is doing out-of-band authentication. 2007, Simon Willison, Google Tech Talks: The Implications of OpenID, archived from the original on 13 May 2008:
  4. Of a value returned by a function: not in its natural range of return values, but rather signaling an exception.

Antonyms

inband

Deriveds

out-of-band signaling

Translations (11)

de bandfern (telecommunications: outside of a defined telecommunications frequency band) · de Out-of-Band- (telecommunications: on a different channel, or by a different method) · fr horsbande (telecommunications: on a different channel, or by a different method) · fi kaistan ulkopuolinen (telecommunications: on a different channel, or by a different method) · de Out-of-Band- (computer security: via a method other than the primary means of accessing the software) · fi kaistan ulkopuolinen (computer security: via a method other than the primary means of accessing the software) · fr horsbande (computer security: via a method other than the primary means of accessing the software) · fr hors bande (telecommunications: outside of a defined telecommunications frequency band) · fi kaistan ulkopuolinen (telecommunications: outside of a defined telecommunications frequency band) · ru внеполосный (telecommunications: on a different channel, or by a different method) · de außerband- (telecommunications: outside of a defined telecommunications frequency band)