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Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide
Release 2 (9.2)

Part Number A96573-01
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Abbreviations and Acronyms

This appendix defines abbreviations and acronyms used in the Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide (Table G-1):

Table G-1 Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviation / Acronym Description

3DES

A version of the DES encryption algorithm that provides triple-encryption; see Triple-DES.

ACL

Access Control List

CA

Certificate Authority

CBC

Cipher-Block-Chaining

CDS

Cell Directory Service

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

DCE

Distributed Computing Environment

DES

Data Encryption Standard (U.S.)

DES40

Data Encryption Standard with 40-bit encryption keys

DES56

Data Encryption Standard with 56-bit encryption keys

DIT

Directory Information Tree

DN

Distinguished Name

DNS

Domain Naming Service

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standard

GDS

Global Directory Service

GSSAPI

Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

HTTP combined with underlying SSL layer

IIOP

Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

ISM

Bull Integrated System Management

ISP

Internet Service Provider

JDBC

Java Database Connectivity

JDK

Java Development Kit

JRE

Java Runtime Environment

LAN

Local Area Network

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

MD4

Message Digest 4; a checksumming algorithm that produces a128-bit hash total (checksum); see MD5.

MD5

Message Digest 5; a checksumming algorithm that produces a 128-bit hash total (checksum); stronger successor to MD4.

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

OCI

Oracle Call Interface

OSF

Open Software Foundation

PIN

Personal Identification Number

PKE

Public Key Encoding

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

RC4

A symmetric encryption algorithm from RSA Data Security, Inc.

RPC

Remote Procedure Call

RSA

RSA Data Security, Inc.; refers to the RSA encryption module

SASL

Simple Authentication and Security Layer

SHA

Secure Hash Algorithm

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

SSO

Single Sign-on

Triple-DES

A version of the DES encryption algorithm that provides triple-encryption; see 3DES

WAN

Wide Area Network


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