Firewall and others-Appendix

Appendix: Abbreviations table

AH: Authentication Header
BTP: Back-traffic Protection
CA: Certification Authority
CBC: Cipher Block Chaining
CLNP: Connectionless Network Protocol
DES: Data Encryption Standard
ESP: Encapsulating Security Payload
GSS-API: Generic Security Service API.
IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IESG: Internet Engineering Steering Group
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
IKMP: Internet Key Management Protocol
IPC: Interprocess Communications
IPRA: Internet Policy regiity Authority
IPSEC: IETF's Internet Protocol Security Protocol
IPSP: IP Security Protocol
ISAKMP: Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
MKMP: Modular Key Management Protocol
NLSP: Network Layer Security Protocol
PCA: Policy Certification Authority
PCT: Private Communications Technology
PEM: Privacy Enhanced Mail
PFS: Perfect-forward Secrecy
PKI: Publlic Key Infrastructure
RADIUS: Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
SEPP: Secure Electronic Payment Protocol
SET: Secure Electronic Transactions
SDNS: Secure Data Network System
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm
S-HTTP: Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
SKEME: Secure Key Exchange mechanic
SKIP: Simple Key Maanagement for Internet Protocols
SNP: Secure network programming
SP3: Security Protocol 3
SSH: Secure Shell
SSL: Secure Socket Layer
STS: Station-to-station Protocol
STT: Secure Transaction Technology
S/WAN: Secure Wide-area Network
TLI: Transport Layer Interface
TLS: Transport Layer Security
TLSP: Transport Layer Security Protocol

Note: This article is translated from Communications of ACM May 1997 Vol. 40 No. 5 pp 92-102

The original author is Rolf Oppliger, the Swiss Federal Information technology and system Bureau, Berne, Zurich
Two University jobs.