Glossary and abbreviations

This is an attempt to list words used within this site and to explain their definition to make them more clearer.

Also have a look at: Brain/Assurer'sCryptographyLibrary/GlossaryAbbreviations.

Maybe it would be smart, these wiki sites, "Glossary" and "Glossary & Abbreviations", to consolidate

Abbreviations and glossary

2 - 3 - A - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - U - V - W

[2]

2TDEA
2-keys Triple Data Encryption Algorithm

[3]

3TDEA
3-keys Triple Data Encryption Algorithm

[A]

A
Arbitrator (in Arbitrations)
ABC
Arbitrated Background Check
ACL
Access Control List
AEP
Auto Enrollment Proxy - proxy server for an automatic issuing of organization certificates
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
AH
Assurance Handbook
AO
Assurance Officer
AP
Assurance Policy
ASN.1
(ASN1) Abstract Syntax Notation One (defined in ITU-T X.680-X.683)
ATE
Assurer Training Event

[C]

C
Claimant (in Arbitrations)
CA
Certification Authority
CanonicalName
"a true, a real" name - neither an alias nor a nickname
CommonName
common name of the subject; in client certificates mostly a person name, e-mail address, in server certificates should be the FQDN of a server
CAP
CAcert Assurance Programme
CAPE
CAcert Assumption of Privacy in Email
CARP
CAcert Assurer Reliable Proposition
CARS
CAcert Assurer Reliable Statement
CATS
CAcert Assurer Testing System
CC
Carbon Copy, (Common Criteria)
CCA
CAcert Community Agreement
CCS
Configuration Control Specification
Certificate

confirmation or testimonial - a document basically saying this: "We, CA, have verified and confirm that the subject "CommonName" is indeed what it claims to be. This confirmation is valid since (date) until (date)."; a pair of cryptographic keys (one of them, the public one, is a part of the certificate) provides that the claim presented is not forged; the contents of the certificate may be saved in a computer as data in a database or as a file; you can find out on the CRL list, whether or not the confirmation is still valid (it is not revoked)

CM
Case Manager (in Arbitrations)
COAP
CAcert Organisation Assurance Programme
COD
CAcert Official Document
CoI
Conflict of Interests
CP
Certificate Policy (combined with CPS)
CPS
Certification Practise Statement (combined with CP)
CRL
Certificate Revocation List
CSR
Certificate Signing Request

[D]

D-H
Diffie-Hellmann algorithm for key exchange
DBA
Alternative name for organisation ("doing business as")
DPA
Data Protection Act
DRP
Dispute Resolution Policy
DRO
Dispute Resolution Officer
DSA
Digital Signature Algorithm

[E]

ECC
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ECDSA
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
EE
End-Entity or Member's certificate

[F]

FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
FFC
Finite Field Cryptography
FQDN
Fully Qualified Domain Name = an unique name (including an Internet domain) of an Internet host
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
FTPS
File Transfer Protocol Secured

[G]

GNU
GNU's Not Unix - the unfinished free operating system
GPG
GNU Privacy Guard

[H]

Hostname
The name of a "host", a computer in the Internet, usually its FQDN, thus a DNS name used for communication with that host
Hostname (short)
The short name of a "host", a computer in a local or closed network with the flat address space; names do not contain a domain, they do not represent FQDN
HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

HyperText Transfer Protocol Secured

[I]

IFC
Integer Factorization Cryptography
IIS
Internet Information Server (the term of Microsoft)
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol - the protocol for accessing Email messages
IMAPS
Internet Message Access Protocol Secured
IPR
Intellectual Property Rights
ISP
Internet Service Provider - an organization connecting you with Internet

[M]

MAC
(1) Message Authentication Code
MAC
(2) Media Access Controlí (Ethernet: 6 hex. bytes, first 3 usually means vendor's ID)
MTA
Mail Transfer Agent - a computer process
MX
Mail eXchanger - the DNS record type, determining the Email server for a domain in question

[N]

ND
No Driver - driver isn't needed
NR
Non Repudiation
NRP
Non-related Person
NRPDaL
NRP's old document, since replaced by RDL
NSW
New South Wales - a part of Australia, CAcert's residence

[O]

OpenCT
Open-source Card Terminal
OpenSC
Open-source Smart Card
OrgAdmin old O-Admin
Administrator within an organisation
OrgA old sometimes OA
Organisation Assurance
OAO
Organisation Assurance Officer
OAP
Organisation Assurance Policy
OATE
Organisation Assurers Training Event
OCSP
Online Certificate Status Protocol
OA old OrgAssurer
Organisation Assurer
OID
Object ID - an unique object ID (a sequence of decimal numbers separated with dots)
OTRS

Open source Ticket Request System, see http://otrs.org/

[P]

PAM
Plugable Authentication Module
PEM
Privacy Enhanced Mail - in cryptography container for keys and certificates, contents is usually Base64 coded
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
PII
Personally Identifiable Information
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
PO
Policy Officer
PoIDC
Practice on ID Checking
PoJAM
Policy on Junior Assurers / Members
PoN
Practice On Names
pOA
prospective Organistaion Assurer
PoP
Policy on Policy
POP3
Post Office Protocol 3 - transfer protocol of Email messages from a server to an addressee
POP3S
Post Office Protocol 3 Secured
PP
Privacy Policy
PR
Public Relations

[R]

R
Respondent (in Arbitrations)
RA
Registration Authority
RDL

Root Distribution License

R/H/P

German Translation of R/L/O: Risiken, Haftung and Pflichten

RPA
Relying Party Agreement
R/L/O

Risks, Liabilities and Obligations

RSA
Rivest, Shamir, Adleman (authors of the RSA encrypt/decrypt algorithm)

[S]

SA
Software-Assessor, Software-Assessment
SAN
Subject Alternative Name - e. g. more names of the same server, saved in the certificate
SE
Support Engineer, Software Engineer
ServerAlias
Alternative name of a server; can be either FQDN or a plain name; It is used where more websites reside on a single IP address, or more virtual servers reside on single server machine
ServerName
can be FQDN, canonical name, or an alias
SM
Security Manual
SP
Security Policy
SO
Support Officer
SSO
Single Sign On
SubjectAltName
Alternative name of the subject; for example Email address to the person name, or a server alias(es) to the server name
SubPol(s)
Subsidiary Policy/Policies
SVN
Subversion System, (svn.cacert.org)

[T]

TTP
Trusted Third Party

[U]

UCS
Uniform Communication Standard
UPN
User Principal Name
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
USB
Universal Serial Bus
UTF8
UCS Transformation Format, 8 bits (variable length 1 byte to 6 bytes); also UTF-16 and UTF-32 do exist. UTF8 definition see RFC-3629 and Unicode 4.0

[V]

Verification

Verification of certificate information. See more at Validation

VirtualHost
usually a virtual server hosted on a real machine; each virtual host needs its own certificate to enable the secured connection
VPN
Virtual Private Network - a network or its part is connected with another type of connection (as "tunneling" over Internet and similar)
Validation

a word used for verification of certificate information, analogous to CAcert's Assurance. See Validation for more.

[W]

WIP
Work In Progress
WoT
Web of Trust

Obsolete comments concerning Thawte

/!\ The following 4 entries belong to the TVerify program abandoned on November 16., 2011 /!\

Class 1 Member
A Thawte user who has been successful verifying their email address with the Thawte system.
Thawte Verified User

A Thawte user who has been verified by Thawte as a Class 1 member.

Thawte Trusted User

A Thawte user who has been verified by the Thawte Web of Trust Program (WoT) and has been assured for at least 50 trust points. You will now be able to see your name in your certificates. You are now trusted and can use the tverify method at http://tverify.cacert.org/ .

Thawte Assurer

A Thawte user who has been assured for at least 100 trust points.

Glossary (last edited 2016-05-18 15:12:31 by AlesKastner)