6416B Mod13 Acronym List

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1 AD CS Active Directory Certificate Services p. 3
2 AIA Authority Information Access p. 5, 16
3 API Application Programming Interface p. 4
4 CA Certification Authority p. 3
5 CDP CRL Distribution Point (see CRL) p. 5
6 CNG Crytography Next Generation p. 3
7 COM Component Object Model p. 21
8 CRL Certificate Revocation List p. 5
9 CSP Cryptographic Service Provider p. 12
10 DLL Dynamic link Library p. 3
11 ECC Elliptic Curve Crytography p. 4
12 EFS Encrypting File System p. 15
13 HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol p. 11
14 IETF Internet Engineering Task force p. 12
15 IIS Internet Information Services p. 11
16 ISAPI Internet Server Application Programming Interface p. 11
17 IPSec Internet Protocol Security p. 4
18 MMC Microsoft Management Console p. 5
19 MSCEP
(see SCEP)		 Microsoft Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol p. 12
20 NDES Network Device Enrollment Service p. 3
21 OCSP Online Certificate Status Protocol p. 13
22 PKCS Public-Key Cryptography Standards p. 11
23 PKI Public Key Infrastructure p. 6, 9
24 RA Registration Authority, as in MSCEP RA p. 12
25 RFC Request for Comment p. 14
26 SCEP Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol p. 3
27 SSL Secure Sockets Layer p. 15
28 WSUS Windows Server Update Services  
29 SHA Secure Hash Algorithm p. 14
30 RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adelman p. 4
31 S/MIME Secure MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) p. 4, 15
32 X.509 OK, not an acronym but I added it because I wanted to p. 7, 15
33 URL Uniform Resource Locator p. 16

    "U.S." not included in the list above. :)