Appendix 00: Acronyms And Terminologies Used
8 min readJul 29, 2021
[A]
A6:
1. Authentication,
2. Attestation (verify a posit or premise, aka Assess),
3. Authorization,
4. Access and
5. Audit*
6. Assertions (claim a posit or premise)*Data audit are subjected to AssertionsAAD:
Additional Authenticated DataAEAD:
Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (a.k.a. Authenticated Encryption mode)AES:
Advanced Encryption SchemeAES-CTR:
AES – Counter modeAES-CBC:
AES – Cipher Block ChainingAES-CFB:
AES – Cipher FeedbackAES-CCM:
AES – Counter with CBC-MACAES-ECB:
AES – Electronic Code BookAES-GCM:
AES – Galois/Counter ModeAES-OCB:
AES – Offset Codebook ModeAES-OFB:
AES – Output FeedbackAES-XEX:
AES – Xor-Encrypt Encrypt-xorAES-XTS:
AES – XEX-based Tweaked Codebook mode with Ciphertext weaked Codebook mode with Ciphertext Stealing (XEX = Xor tealing)[B]
BBS (signature):
Boneh, Boyen and Shacham signature (2004). A signature from a group of members, anonymously signed only by 1 from within.BIST:
Built-In Self-TestBLS (signature):
Boneh–Lynn–Shacham signature produces short signatures, using EC pairing (aka bilinear maps).[C]
CA:
Certificate…