Best FIPS 140 Acronym, Abbreviation, Terminology Glossary

The Best FIPS 140-2 Acronym, Abbreviation, and Terminology Glossary on the Internet

It's a bit grandiose for a blog post title, but this is long overdue and it feels good to move it from my "To Do" List to my "Revisit and Update in the Future" List. With that in mind, please enjoy this authoritative reference list of every acronym, abbreviation, and terminology found in FIPS 140, federal government and Public Sector procurement, and regulated industry compliance and certification. I plan to expand and improve this repository in the near future, so please contact us if you have suggestions.

Without further ado, here is The Best FIPS 140-2 Acronym, Abbreviation, and Terminology Glossary on the Internet, presented by SafeLogic!

Term	Definition
3PAO	Third Party Assessment Organization
ACVT	Automated Cryptographic Validation Testing
ACVTS	Automated Cryptographic Validation Testing System
ADI	Alliance for Digital Innovation
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AFCEA	Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
ANSI X9.31	X9.31-1998, Digital Signatures using Reversible Public Key Cryptography for the Financial Services Industry (rDSA), September 9, 1998
API	Application Programming Interface
APL	Approved Products List
ATO	Authority to Operate
C3PAO	CMMC Third Party Assessment Organization
CAVP	Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program
CBC	Cipher-Block Chaining
CC	Common Criteria
CCCS	Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
CCM	Counter with CBC-MAC
CDH	Computational Diffie-Hellman
CFB	Cipher Feedback Mode
CMAC	Cipher-based Message Authentication Code
CMMC	Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
CMMC-AB	CMMC Accreditation Body
CMVP	Cryptographic Module Validation Program
CNSS	Committee on National Security Systems
CO	Crypto Officer
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CS	Ciphertext Stealing
CSD	Computer Security Division
CSfC	Commercial Solutions for Classified
CSO	Cloud Service Offering
CSP	Cloud Services Provider
CSP	Critical Security Parameter
CST	Cryptographic and Security Testing
CTR	Counter-mode
CVL	Component Validation List
DES	Data Encryption Standard
DH	Diffie-Hellman
DIB	Defense Industrial Base
DISA	Defense Information Systems Agency
DoD	Department of Defense
DoDIN APL	Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List
DRAM	Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRBG	Deterministic Random Bit Generator
DSA	Digital Signature Algorithm
DSTU4145	Ukrainian DSTU-4145-2002 Elliptic Curve Scheme
EC	Elliptic Curve
ECB	Electronic Code Book
ECC	Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ECDSA	Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
EMC	Electromagnetic Compatibility
EMI	Electromagnetic Interference
FCC	Federal Communications Commission
FedRAMP	Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
FFRDC	Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standard
FIPS 140-2	Security Requirements for Cryptographic modules, May 25, 2001
FIPS 140-3	Security Requirements for Cryptographic modules, March 22, 2019
FIPS 180-4	Secure Hash Standard (SHS)
FIPS 186-2	Digital Signature Standard (DSS)
FIPS 186-3	Digital Signature Standard (DSS)
FIPS 186-4	Digital Signature Standard (DSS)
FIPS 197	Advanced Encryption Standard
FIPS 198-1	The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC)
FIPS 202	SHA-3 Standard: Permutation-Based Hash and Extendable-Output Functions
FISMA	Federal Information Security Management/Modernization Act
GCM	Galois/Counter Mode
GMAC	Galois Message Authentication Code
GOST	Gosudarstvennyi Standard Soyuza SSR/Government Standard of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
GPC	General Purpose Computer
HIPAA	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIPPA	a common misspelling of HIPAA
HITRUST	Health Information Trust Alliance
HMAC	(Keyed-) Hash Message Authentication Code
IEC	International Electrotechnical Commission
IG	Implementation Guidance [in this case, within the context of FIPS 140 and the Cryptographic Module Validation Program]
IG	Implementation Guidance
ILAC	International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
IV	Initialization Vector
JAB	Joint Authorization Board
JAR	Java ARchive
JCA	Java Cryptography Architecture
JCE	Java Cryptography Extension
JDK	Java Development Kit
JRE	Java Runtime Environment
JVM	Java Virtual Machine
KAS	Key Agreement Scheme
KAT	Known Answer Test
KDF	Key Derivation Function
KW	Key Wrap
KWP	Key Wrap with Padding
MAC	Message Authentication Code
MD5	Message Digest algorithm MD5
MOA	Memorandum of Agreement
N/A	Non Applicable
NDRNG	Non Deterministic Random Number Generator
NIAP	National Information Assurance Partnership
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
NSS	National Security Systems
NSS	Network Security Services
NVLAP	National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program
OCB	Offset Codebook Mode
OFB	Output Feedback
OMB	Office of Management and Budget
OS	Operating System
OUSD(A&S)	Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
P-ATO	Provisional Authority to Operate
PBKDF	Password-Based Key Derivation Function
PKCS	Public-Key Cryptography Standards
PKCS#1 v2.2	RSA Cryptography Standard
PKCS#12 v1.1	Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard
PKCS#5 v2.0	Password-Based Cryptography Standard
PMO	Program Management Office
PQG	Diffie-Hellman Parameters P, Q and G
RC	Rivest Cipher, Ron’s Code
PRNG	Pseudo-Random Number Generator
RIPEMD	RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest
RSA	Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman
SHA	Secure Hash Algorithm
SP 800-108	Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions
SP 800-132	Recommendation for Password-Based Key Derivation
SP 800-135	Recommendation for Existing Application–Specific Key Derivation Functions
SP 800-20	Modes of Operation Validation System for Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TMOVS)
SP 800-38A	Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Three Variants of Ciphertext Stealing for CBC Mode
SP 800-38B	Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: The CMAC Mode for Authentication
SP 800-38C	Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: The CCM Mode for Authentication and Confidentiality
SP 800-38D	Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) and GMAC
SP 800-38F	Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Key Wrapping
SP 800-56A	Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography
SP 800-56B	Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Integer Factorization Cryptography
SP 800-56C	Recommendation for Key Derivation Methods in Key-Establishment Schemes
SP 800-67	Recommendation for the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA) Block Cipher
SP 800-89	Recommendation for Obtaining Assurances for Digital Signature Applications
SP 800-90A	Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators
SP 800-171	Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations
STIG	Security Technical Implementation Guide
STVMG	Security Testing, Validation and Measurement
TCBC	TDEA Cipher-Block Chaining
TCFB	TDEA Cipher Feedback Mode
TDEA	Triple Data Encryption Algorithm
TDES	Triple Data Encryption Standard
TECB	TDEA Electronic Codebook
TLS	Transport Layer Security
TOFB	TDEA Output Feedback
UARC	University Affiliated Research Centers
UC	Unified Communications
UC APL	Unified Communications Approved Products List (now the DoDIN APL)
USB	Universal Serial Bus
XOF	Extendable-Output Function

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