Appendix D List of Symbols, Abbreviations, and Acronyms

Before · SP 800-73-4

After · SP 800-73-5

List of Symbols, Abbreviations, and Acronyms

Before · SP 800-73-4

After · SP 800-73-5

ACR Access Control Rule

AID Application Identifier

APDU Application Protocol Data Unit

API Application Programming Interface

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One

BER Basic Encoding Rules

BIT Biometric Information Template

CAK Card Authentication Key

CBEFF Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework

CCC Card Capability Container

CHUID Card Holder Unique Identifier

CMS Cryptographic Message Syntax

CVC Card Verifiable Certificate

DER Distinguished Encoding Rules

DG Data Group

DTR Derived Test Requirement

ECB Electronic Code Book ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography

ECDH Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman

ECDSA Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

FASC-N Federal Agency Smart Credential Number

FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard

FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act

GSC-IS Government Smart Card Interoperability Specification

GUID Global Unique Identification number

HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive

ICC Integrated Circuit Card

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

INCITS InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ITL Information Technology Laboratory

LSB Least Significant Bit

LRC Longitudinal Redundancy Code

MAC Message Authentication Code

MRTD Machine Readable Travel Document

MSB Most Significant Bit NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NPIVP NIST Personal Identity Verification Program

OCC On-Card Biometric Comparison

OID Object Identifier

OMB Office of Management and Budget

PACS Physical Access Control System

PIN Personal Identification Number

PI Person Identifier, a field in the FASC-N

PIV Personal Identity Verification

PIX Proprietary Identifier Extension

PKCS Public-Key Cryptography Standards

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PUK PIN Unblocking Key

RFU Reserved for Future Use

RID Registered Application Provider Identifier

RSA Rivest–Shamir–Adleman

SCEPACS Smart Card Enabled Physical Access Control System

SHA Secure Hash Algorithm

SP Special Publication SM Secure Messaging

SW1 First byte of a two-byte status word

SW2 Second byte of a two-byte status word

TIG Technical Implementation Guidance

TLV Tag-Length-Value

URL Uniform Resource Locator

UUID Universally Unique Identifier

VCI Virtual Contact Interface