Appendix B - List of Abbreviations
This table lists all abbreviations used in the nevisAuth reference guide.
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| AD | Active Directory |
| ADAM | Active Directory Application Mode |
| ADFS | Active Directory Federation Services |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| API | Application Program Interface |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Exchange |
| AVP | Attribute Value Pair |
| BST | Binary Search Tree |
| C/R | Challenge/Response |
| CA | Certificate Authority |
| CAPTCHA | Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart |
| CBC | Cipher Block Chaining |
| CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
| CRL | Certificate Revocation List |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| CSSO | Cascading Style Sheet Optimizer |
| DB | DataBase |
| DER | Distinguished Encoding Rules |
| DN | Distinguished Name |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| EE | Enterprise Edition |
| EL | Expression Language |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| GSSAPI | Generic Security Services Application Program Interface |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HSM | Hardware Security Module |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure |
| ID | IDentifier |
| IDM | IDentity Management |
| IDP | IDentity Provider |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| IV | Initialization Vector |
| JAAS | Java Authentication and Authorization Service |
| JAR | Java ARchive |
| Java EL | Java Expression Language |
| JAX | Java API for XML |
| JAXWS | Java API for XML Web Services |
| JDBC | Java DataBase Connectivity |
| JDNC | Java Desktop Network Components |
| JNDI | Java Naming and Directory Interface |
| JRE | Java Runtime Environment |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
| JSSE | Java Secure Socket Extension |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
| JWT | JSON Web Token |
| KDC | Key Distribution Center |
| KEM | Key Encapsulation Mechanism |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LGPL | Lesser General Public License |
| MDC | Mapped Diagnostic Context |
| MET | Middle European Time |
| MQ | Message Queue |
| MSIE | MicroSoft Internet Explorer |
| MSISDN | Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number |
| mTAN | mobile Transaction Authentication Number |
| NT | (Windows) New Technology |
| NTLM | NT LAN Manager |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
| OCSP | Online Certificate Status Protocol |
| OOCD | Out Of Context Data Store |
| OS | Operating System |
| OTP | One-Time Password |
| PAM | Pluggable Authentication Module |
| Portable Document Format | |
| PEM | Privacy Enhanced Mail |
| PIN | Personal Identification Number |
| PKC | Public Key Cryptography |
| PKCS | Public Key Cryptography Standard |
| PKI | Pubilc Key Infrastructure |
| PUI | Project-Unique Identifier |
| PW | PassWord |
| RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service |
| RDBMS | Relational DataBase Management System |
| REST | REpresentational State Transfer |
| RFC | Request For Comments |
| RSA | Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (company) |
| SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language |
| SAP | Systems, Applications, and Products (company) |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm |
| SMF | Service Management Facility |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SP | Service Provider |
| SPN | |
| SPNEGO | Simple and Protected GSSAPI NEGOtiation mechanism |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| TAN | Transaction Authentication Number |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TGT | Ticket Granting Ticket |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| VSA | Vendor Specific Attributes |
| WS | Web Services |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
| WSS | Web Services Security |
| XML | EXtensible Markup Language |
| XSD | XML Schema Definition |