Crypto
64 acronyms in this category, in plain English.
- 3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard
- AEAD Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data
- AES Advanced Encryption Standard
- CBC Cipher Block Chaining
- CMAC Cipher-based Message Authentication Code
- CNSA Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite
- COSE CBOR Object Signing and Encryption
- CRL Certificate Revocation List
- CSPRNG Cryptographically Secure Pseudorandom Number Generator
- CSR Certificate Signing Request
- CTR Counter Mode
- DES Data Encryption Standard
- DHE Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
- DRBG Deterministic Random Bit Generator
- DSA Digital Signature Algorithm
- DSS Digital Signature Standard
- ECB Electronic Codebook
- ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography
- ECDH Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
- ECDSA Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
- EdDSA Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm
- FHE Fully Homomorphic Encryption
- FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
- GCM Galois/Counter Mode
- GPG GNU Privacy Guard
- HKDF HMAC-based Key Derivation Function
- HMAC Hash-based Message Authentication Code
- HPKE Hybrid Public Key Encryption
- HSM Hardware Security Module
- JWE JSON Web Encryption
- JWK JSON Web Key
- JWS JSON Web Signature
- KDF Key Derivation Function
- KEM Key Encapsulation Mechanism
- MD5 Message Digest 5
- ML-DSA Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm
- ML-KEM Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism
- MPC Multi-Party Computation
- OCSP Online Certificate Status Protocol
- OPRF Oblivious Pseudorandom Function
- PAKE Password-Authenticated Key Exchange
- PBKDF2 Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2
- PEM Privacy-Enhanced Mail
- PFS Perfect Forward Secrecy
- PGP Pretty Good Privacy
- PKCS Public Key Cryptography Standards
- PKI Public Key Infrastructure
- PQC Post-Quantum Cryptography
- PRNG Pseudorandom Number Generator
- PUF Physical Unclonable Function
- RC4 Rivest Cipher 4
- RNG Random Number Generator
- RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
- SHA-1 Secure Hash Algorithm 1
- SHA-256 Secure Hash Algorithm 256
- SHA-3 Secure Hash Algorithm 3
- SLH-DSA Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Algorithm
- SRP Secure Remote Password
- TEE Trusted Execution Environment
- VRF Verifiable Random Function
- X.509 ITU-T X.509 Public Key Certificate Standard
- XMSS eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme
- XTS XEX-based Tweaked-codebook mode with Ciphertext Stealing
- ZKP Zero-Knowledge Proof