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

System Requirements
Glossary

Reference to PKI Standards

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