Glossary
The following is a list of some common PKI and cryptography related acronyms:
| Abbreviation | Description |
| ADSS | Advanced Digital Signature Services server (a server-side product from Ascertia for providing signature generation/verification, certificate validation and other trust services). |
| CA | Certificate Authority (logical entity responsible for issuing certificates and optionally also CRLs) |
| CAPI | Microsoft Crypto API |
| Cert | X.509 Digital Certificate |
| CRL | X.509 Certificate Revocation List |
| CMS | Cryptographic Message Syntax (a digital signature format) |
| DBMS | Database Management System |
| DNV | Det Norske Veritas (an Ascertia partner providing signature verification services using ADSS server) |
| DSA | Digital Signature Algorithm |
| DSS | Digital Signature Service (a web services standard from the OASIS organisation) |
| HSM | Hardware/Host Security Module |
| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| HTTP/S | HTTP over TLS connection |
| JDBC | Java Database Connectivity |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LDAP/S | LDAP over a TLS connection |
| Log4j | A robust logging API from Apache |
| LTANS | Long-Term Archive and Notary Service |
| PKCS | Public Key Cryptographic Standards |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| RSA | Rivest, Shamir, Adleman (public key algorithm) |
| OCSP | Online Certificate Status Protocol (an IETF protocol for verifying the revocation status of a digital certificate) |
| SCVP | Server-based Certificate Validation Protocol |
| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm (there are various algorithms in this family, e.g. SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512 etc.) |
| S/MIME | Secure MIME (standard for signing emails) |
| TA | Trust Authority (general term for an authority trusted for some e-service(s), e.g. for issuing certificates, CRLs, OCSP responses and/or time stamps) |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TSA | Time Stamp Authority (authority responsible for issuing timestamp tokens to prove that a document/data existed at a particular time) |
| TSP | Time Stamp Protocol (the protocol for communicating with a TSA) |
| VA | Validation Authority (logical entity responsible for validating certificates or verifying full digital signatures) |
| XKMS | XML Key Management Specifications |
| XML DigSig | XML Digital Signature standard |
See also