Acronyms

See: certification authority.

See: Certificate Arbitrator Module.

An end to end encryption system for computer data networks that was developed by the U.S. DoD in the 1980s to provide host to host data confidentiality service for datagrams in OSIRM Layer 3. [Roge] (Compare: BLACKER, IPsec.)

See: cryptographic application programming interface.

An integrated microcircuit (in MYK 8x series manufactured by Mykotronx, Inc.) that implements SKIPJACK, KEA, DSA, SHA, and basic mathematical functions needed to support asymmetric cryptography; has a non deterministic random number generator; and supports key escrow. (See: FORTEZZA. Compare: CLIPPER.)

A design procedure for symmetric encryption algorithms, and a resulting family of algorithms, invented by Carlisle Adams (C.A.) and Stafford Tavares (S.T.). [R2144, R2612]

See: certification authority workstation.

See: cipher block chaining.

See: cardholder certification authority.

See: Commercial COMSEC Endorsement Program.

See: Controlled Cryptographic Item.

Acronym for French translation of International Telephone and Telegraph Consultative Committee. Now renamed ITU T.

See: Counter with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code.

Purdue University's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, which includes faculty from multiple schools and departments and takes a multidisciplinary approach to security problems ranging from technical to ethical, legal, educational, communicational, linguistic, and economic.

See: computer emergency response team.

See: cipher feedback.

See: Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol.

See: Computer Incident Advisory Capability.

See: cryptographic ignition key.

See: Common IP Security Option.

See: compromised key list.

See: commercially licensed evaluation facility.

An integrated microcircuit (in MYK 7x series manufactured by Mykotronx, Inc.) that implements SKIPJACK, has a non deterministic random number generator, and supports key escrow. (See: Escrowed Encryption Standard. Compare: CLIPPER.)

See: certificate management authority.

A message authentication code [SP38B] that is based on a symmetric block cipher. (See: block cipher.)

See: COMSEC Material Control System.

See: Capability Maturity Model.

See: Cryptographic Message Syntax.

See: community of interest.

See: computer security.

See: communication security.

monitoring other competitor organizations and nations to gather information

See: certification practice statement.

See: Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism.

See: cyclic redundancy check.

See: certificate revocation list.

See: computer security incident response team.

See: Computer Security Objects Register.

See: ciphertext auto key.

See: counter mode.