Abbreviations and Acronyms

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AA		attribute authority
AAI		authentication and authorization infrastructure
ACL		access control list
ACM		Association for Computing Machinery
ACT		anticlogging token
AES		Advanced Encryption Standard
AFS		Andrew file system
AFT		authenticated firewall traversal
AH		authentication header
ANSI		American National Standards Institute
API		application programming interface
ARPA		Advanced Research Projects Agency
AS		authentication server
ASN.1		abstract syntax notation 1
ATM		asynchronous transfer mode automatic teller machine
BAN		Burrows, Abadi, and Needham
BBN		Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
BCP		best current practice
BER		basic encoding rules
BIND		Berkeley Internet name daemon
BXA		Bureau of Export Administration
CA		certification authority
CAT		common authentication technology
CBC		cipher block chaining
CC		common criteria
CCI		common client interface
CCITT		Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy and Telephony (now ITU-T)
CCP		Compression Control Protocol
CCTA		Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
CD		compact disc committee draft
CDP		Certificate Discovery Protocol
CEC		Commission of the European Communities
CERT		computer emergency response team
CERT/CC		CERT coordination center
CFB		cipher feedback
CHAP		Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CLI		command line interface
CLNP		Connectionless Network Protocol
CLUSIF		club de la securite informatique francais
CMIP		Common Management Information Protocol
CMS		cryptographic message syntax
COAST		computer operations, audit, and security technology
CORBA		common object request broker architecture
COTS		commercial off-the-shelf
CRAMM		CCTA risk analysis and management methodology
CRC		cyclic redundancy checksum
CRHF		collision resistant hash function
CRL		certificate revocation list
CRMF		certificate request message format
CRS		certificate revocation system
CRT		certificate revocation tree
CSI		Computer Security Institute
CSRG		Computer Systems Research Group
CV		control value
DAC		discretionary access control
DAP		Directory Access Protocol
DARPA		Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DCA		Defense Communications Agency
DCE		Distributed Computing Environment
DCMS		distributed certificate management system
DDoS		distributed denial of service
DEC		Digital Equipment Corporation
DER		distinguished encoding rules
DES		Data Encryption Standard
DFA		differential fault analysis
DIS		draft international standard
DISA		Defense Information Systems Agency
DIT		directory information tree
DMZ		demilitarized zone
DN		distinguished name
DNS		domain name system
DoC		U.S. Department of Commerce
DoD		U.S. Department of Defense
DOI		domain of interpretation
DoS		U.S. Department of State denial of service
DOS		disk operating system
DPA		differential power analysis
DSA		digital signature algorithm
DSS		Digital Signature Standard
DVC		data validation certificate
DVCS		data validation and certification server
E-cash		electronic cash
ECB		electronic code book
E-commerce		electronic commerce
ECP		Encryption Control Protocol
EDI		electronic data interchange
EFS		encrypting file system
EFT		electronic funds transfer
EGP		Exterior Gateway Protocol
EIT		Enterprise Integration Technologies
E-mail		electronic mail
ESM		encrypted session manager
ESP		encapsulating security payload
EU		European Union
FAQ		frequently asked question
FDDI		fiber distributed data interface
FIPS		Federal Information Processing Standard
FIRST		Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
FNC		Federal Networking Council
FQDN		fully qualified domain name
FSUIT		Swiss Federal Strategy Unit for Information Technology
FTP		File Transfer Protocol
FWPD		Firewall Product Developers Consortium
FWTK		firewall toolkit
GII		global information infrastructure
GIK		group interchange key
GPS		global positioning system
GSS-API		generic security service API
GUI		graphical user interface
HP		Hewlett-Packard
HTML		Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP		Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IAB		Internet Architecture Board
IAM		Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
IANA		Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IBM		International Business Machines Corporation
ICANN		Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICMP		Internet Control Message Protocol
ICSA		International Computer Security Association
ICSI		International Computer Science Institute
IDEA		international data encryption algorithm
IDS		intrusion detection system
IDWG		intrusion detection exchange format
IEC		International Electrotechnical Committee
IEEE		Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IESG		Internet Engineering Steering Group
IETF		Internet Engineering Task Force
IFIP		International Federation for Information Processing
IGP		Interior Gateway Protocol
IIOP		Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IKE		Internet Key exchange
IKMP		Internet Key Management Protocol
IMAP		Internet Message Access Protocol
IP		Internet Protocol
IPC		interprocess communications facility
IPng		IP next generation
IPPCP		IP Payload Compression Protocol
IPRA		Internet Policy Registration Authority
IPsec		IP security
IPSP		IP security policy
IPSRA		IP security remote access
IPST		IP Secure Tunnel Protocol
IRSG		Internet Research Steering Group
IRTF		Internet Research Task Force
IS		international standard
ISDN		integrated switched digital network
ISO		International Organization for Standardization
ISOC		Internet Society
IT		information technology
ITSEC		information technology security evaluation criteria
ITU-T		International Telecommunication Union – Telecommunication Standardization Sector
IV		initialization vector
JTC1		Joint Technical Committee 1
Kbps		kilobit per second
KDC		key distribution center
KDS		key distribution server
KEA		key exchange algorithm
KEK		key encryption key
KTC		key translation center
LAN		local area network
LDAP		Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LLC		logical link control
MAC		message authentication code
MAN		metropolitan area network
MARION		methodologie d'analyse des risques informatiques et d'optimation par niveau
MBone		multicast backbone
MD		message digest
MDC		modification detection code
MHS		message handling system
MIB		management information base
MIC		message integrity check
MIME		multipurpose Internet mail extensions
MIT		Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MKMP		Modular Key Management Protocol
MLS		multilevel security
MOSS		MIME object security services
MPLS		multi-protocol label switching
MSP		Message Security Protocol
MTA		message transfer agent
MTS		message transfer system
NAS		network access server
NASA		National Aeronautics and Space Agency
NBS		National Bureau of Standards
NCP		Network Control Protocol
NCSA		National Computer Security Association
NetSP		Network Security Program
NII		national information infrastructure
NIST		National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLSP		Network Layer Security Protocol
NMS		network management station
NNTP		Network News Transfer Protocol
NRL		U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
NSA		National Security Agency
NSF		National Science Foundation
NSP		Network Security Policy
NTP		Network Time Protocol
OCSP		Online Certificate Status Protocol
OFB		output feedback
OPIE		one-time passwords in everything
OPSEC		open platform for security
ORB		Object Request Broker
OSF		Open Software Foundation
OSI		open systems interconnection
OSI-RM		OSI reference model
OWHF		one-way hash function
PAC		proxy auto-configuration
PAP		Password Authentication Protocol
PARC		Palo Alto Research Center
PC		personal computer
PCA		policy certification authority
PCT		private communication technology
PDA		personal digital assistant
PEM		privacy enhanced mail
PEP		Protocol Extension Protocol
PET		privacy enhancing technology
PFS		perfect forward secrecy
PGP		Pretty Good Privacy
PIN		personal identification number
PKCS		public key cryptography standard
PKI		public key infrastructure
PKIX		Public Key Infrastructure X.509
PKP		Public Key Partners
PMI		privilege management infrastructure
POP		Post Office Protocol
PPP		Point-to-Point Protocol
PSRG		Privacy and Security Research Group
PSTN		public-switched telephone network
QoS		quality of service
RA		registration authority
RACF		resource access control facility
RADIUS		remote authentication dial-in user service
RFC		request for comment
RIP		Routing Information Protocol
ROM		read-only memory
RPC		remote procedure call
RR		resource record
RSA		Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman
RSVP		Resource Reservation Protocol
SA		security association
SAID		secure association identifier
SALS		simple authentication and security layer
SDNS		secure data network system
SDSI		simple distributed security infrastructure
SECSH		Secure Shell
SESAME		secure European system for applications in a multi-vendor environment
SET		secure electronic transaction
SHA		secure hash algorithm
SHS		secure hash standard
S-HTTP		secure HTTP
SID		security identifier
SILS		standards for interoperable LAN/MAN security
SKIP		simple key-management for Internet protocols
SLIP		serial line IP
S/MIME		Secure MIME
SMS		service management system
SMTP		Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP		Simple Network Management Protocol
SP3		Security Protocol 3
SP4		Security Protocol 4
SPI		security parameters index
SPKI		simple public key infrastructure
SRA		secure RPC authentication
SRI		Stanford Research Institute
SSH		Secure Shell site security handbook
SSL		secure sockets layer
SSR		secure socket relay
STD		Internet Standard
STEL		secure telnet
STS		station-to-station
TACAS		terminal access controller access system
TAMU		Texas A&M University
TAN		transaction authentication number
TCB		trusted computing base
TCP		Transport Control Protocol
TCSEC		trusted computer system evaluation criteria
TEK		token enryption key
TESS		the exponential security system trusted entry security server
TFTP		trivial FTP
TIS		Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
TLI		transport layer interface
TLS		transport layer security
TLSP		Transport Layer Security Protocol
TOS		type of service
TTL		time to live
TTP		trusted third party
UC		University of California
UCB		University of California at Berkeley
UCLA		University of California at Los Angeles
UCSB		University of California at Santa Barbara
UDP		User Datagram Protocol
UID		user identification
U.K.		United Kingdom
UPS		United Parcel Service
URL		uniform resource locator
U.S.		United States
UUCP		UNIX-UNIX Copy Protocol
VPN		virtual private network
VTP		Virtual Tunneling Protocol
WAIS		wide area information service
WAN		wide area network
WAP		Wireless Application Protocol
WEF		World Economic Forum
WG		working group
WTLS		wireless transport layer security
WWW		World Wide Web
W3C		World Wide Web Consortium
XML		Extensible Markup Language

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