Account number
This is the unique account number assigned to you that identifies you to the CRA. For electronic filing purposes, this can include the Non-Resident number (NR4), Filer Identification Number (FIN), Trust number, or Business Number (RT or RP).
Authentication
Authentication protects information by verifying the identity of the parties on both ends of the Internet connection, before confidential information is exchanged. Your Web access code and Business Number are positively identified at the time of log-in.
Throughout a session, extensive measures maintain security. In addition, server authentication ensures that you're communicating directly with the CRA and not with an unauthorized party.
Business Number
This is the account number assigned by the CRA that uniquely defines the filer payroll deductions program identifier (RP account).
Cache
Your cache stores information where it can be accessed quickly. Your Web browser stores pages, sounds, URLs, and images in caches where they can be easily retrieved. As the user backs through the links, the pages are retrieved quickly, saving the time of a reload.
Electronic commerce
Broadly, this is the delivery of information, products, services, or payments by telephone, computer, or other automated media. More narrowly, it is business-to-consumer and business-to-business transactions conducted over computer networks, whether public (such as the Internet) or private.
Electronic signature
Two pieces of identification–your Business Number and your Web access code–make up your electronic authentication which is considered an official signature for the Internet filing of information returns.
Encryption
Encryption is used to ensure that an unauthorized party won't access your personal information. Data you send from your computer is encrypted before leaving it. Encryption alters your data into a format that can be safely transmitted over the Internet. Once the data has been encrypted, it cannot be read until it reaches its destination and is decrypted, using a decryption key.
Firewall
A firewall acts as a barrier between internal and external computers in a network, controlling the flow of information between the two. When a computer outside the firewall wishes to communicate with a computer inside, it must communicate with the firewall, which then passes the data to the internal computer. This two-step process protects the CRA's internal network from unauthorized access.
Java applets
Java applets are little applications which work primarily on Web pages and Web servers and are used frequently to perform specialized tasks.
Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
JRE is comparable to a plug-in. Much as plug-ins add abilities to your browser, JRE gives your computer the ability to run Java applications. Without JRE, your computer couldn't run applications written in Java. (see Download).
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
SSL protocol was developed by Netscape Communications Corporation to secure Internet communications by encrypting sessions between your Web browser and a Web server. When sensitive information is being sent over the Internet between your browser and a Web server, SSL verifies that the information has not been altered in any way en route. All major browsers released in recent years support SSL.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol ensures the privacy of information passing between your browser and our Web servers. SSL protocol provides a safe passage for the transmission of data and authentication processes by encrypting the information. Data can't be compromised when SSL is in use. This is the standard level of encryption used in North America.This is a typical requirement for Web-based services-such as online banking or shopping-where securing personal information is a priority. When you access Internet filing, our server will verify your browser's encryption capability (no other information will be accessed).
Submission number
This is the number that we electronically send back to you after we receive your information return. Keep this number for your records.
XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web. A formal recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XML is similar to the language of today's Web pages, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
