📒 Glossary

📒 Glossary#

In this documentation, we use terms that are specific to Olvid and may be confusing. This glossary therefore aims to define these terms and serve as a reference throughout your reading.

Daemon#

An independent Olvid application exposing a gRPC server in order to make it controllable by one or more clients. It can be seen as an Olvid API but self-hosted.

Bot#

A client program that interacts with a daemon. This is a generic term that we use even when it is not strictly speaking a chatbot.

CLI (Command-Line Interface)#

A command line interface that allows interactions with a daemon using textual commands. It can interact with the entire API of the daemon for testing and debugging purposes. Today, it is necessary for the initialization of a daemon.

Identity#

A cryptographic identity hosted on an Olvid daemon. Equivalent to a profile on an Olvid app. It also contains data displayed to your contacts (name, first name, photo, etc.).

Client key#

A key used to authenticate on a daemon. A non-admin client key is always associated with an identity hosted on this daemon and only grants access to resources of that identity.

API Key#

A key provided by Olvid to unlock premium features.

Keycloak plugin#

A professional feature of Olvid that allows members of your company to connect with one click, to create groups, … More information here: https://olvid.io/entreprise