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Flags control access to an asset on the account level. Learn more about flags in our [Controlling Access to an Asset section](./issuing-assets/control-asset-access#controlling-access-to-an-asset-with-flags).

### Fuzzing

An automated test that rapidly stuffs massive amounts of randomized, malformed data into a system to reveal adverse or unexpected results that indicate vulnerabilities.

Read more in the [Fuzz Testing Tutorial](https://soroban.stellar.org/docs/tutorials/fuzzing).

### GitHub

An online repository for documents that can be accessed and shared among multiple users; host for the Stellar platform’s source code, documentation, and other open-source repos.
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See our [Signature and Multisignature Encyclopedia Entry](./encyclopedia/signatures-multisig) for more information.

### Smart contract

Self-executing contracts with the terms of the agreement directly written into code, automatically enforceable without the need for intermediaries.

### Source account

The account that originates a transaction. This account also provides the fee and sequence number for the transaction.
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Learn more in our [Accounts section](./fundamentals-and-concepts/stellar-data-structures/accounts#trustlines).

### TTL (Time To Live)

A smart contract's TTL is how many ledgers remain until the data entry is no longer live.

Read more in the [State Archival section](https://soroban.stellar.org/docs/soroban-internals/state-archival#ttl).

### Type

The classification of data that dictates the kind of data that can be stored and how it can be manipulated within a smart contract.

### UNIX timestamp

An integer representing a given date and time, as used on UNIX and Linux computers.
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