IT security glossary
A selection of the most important vocabulary from the world of encryption
We have selected the most common terms related to our core business and created a simple glossary that you can look up. If you are missing a specific word you are looking for, don´t hesitate to contact us. For additional information, please also check the history of cryptography on Wikipedia.
A similar IT security glossary in French language may be found on the website of the Agence Nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information.
C
- CA
- Card Operating System (COS)
- Card Reader
- CCITT
- Certificate
- Certificate Practice Statement
- Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
- Certification
- Certification Authority (CA)
- Challenge Response Protocol
- Charismathics
- Chosen Plaintext Attack
- Cipher
- Classical Cipher
- Closed User Group, Closed Network
- Collision
- Common Criteria
- Composit Certification
- Confidentiality
- Contactless Smart Card
- COS (Card Operating System)
- Cross-Certification
- CRL (Certificate Revocation List)
- crypt’n’trust family
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptanalyst
- Cryptographic Mode of Operation
- Cryptographic Token
- Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP)
- Cryptography
- CSP (Cryptographic Service Provider)
D
- Data Encryption Standard (DES)
- Decryption
- Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
- DES (Data Encryption Standard)
- DFA
- Die, Dice
- Differential Cryptanalysis
- Differential Fault Analysis
- Differential Power Analysis
- Diffie-Hellman (DH) Protocol
- Digital Payment
- Digital Signature
- Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)
- Directory Services
- Discrete Logarithm Problem
- DL Problem
- Document Management
- DPA (Differential Power Analysis)
- DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)
- Dual Interface Card
S
- Smart Security Component (S.S.C.)
- Smart Security Interface (S.S.I.)
- Smart Security Language (S.S.L.)
- S/MIME
- Secret Sharing
- Secure Application Access
- Secure Internet Transactions
- Secure Login
- Seed
- SCEP
- SHA
- Side Channel Attacks
- SigG/SigV
- Simple Power Analysis (SPA)
- Small Devices
- Smart Card Operating System
- Smart Card IC
- Smart Security Appliance
- SPA (Simple Power Analysis)
- SPHINX
- SSL
- Steganography
- Stream Cipher
- Sun Microsystems
- Supported Pre-Boot Environments
- Symmetric Cipher
- Symmetric Encryption
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