Appendix A: List of Symbols, Abbreviations, and Acronyms#
140A-TE1 - Vendor-documentation-dependent Test Evidence
ACMVP/AMVP - Automated Cryptographic Module Validation Project
ACVP - Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol
AD - Active Directory
AD DS - Active Directory Domain Services
ALB - Application Load Balancer
AMI - Amazon Machine Image
API - Applications Programming Interface
AS - Assertion
AWS - Amazon Web Services
CA - Certificate Authority
CAVP - Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program
CCCS - Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
CI/CD - Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
CL - Component List
CMUF - Cryptographic Module Users Forum
CMVP - Cryptographic Module Validation Program
CN - Common Name
CRADA - Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CSP - Critical Security Parameter
CSR - Certificate Signing Request
CSTL - Cryptographic and Security Testing Laboratory
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
DB - Database
DCL - Declarative Configuration Language
DMS - Database Migration Service
DNS - Domain Name System
EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud
ECR - Elastic Container Registry
ECS - Elastic Container Service
EDC - Error Detection Code
EFP - Environmental Failure Protection
EFT - Environmental Failure Testing
EKS - Elastic Kubernetes Service
ENI - Elastic Network Interface
ESV/ESVTS - Entropy Source Validation/Entropy Source Validation Test System
FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standards
FSM - Finite State Model
FT - Functional Test
FW - Firmware
FW-H - Firmware Hardware Hybrid
FS - Full Submission
FSM - Finite State Machine
FSx - File System X
GUID - Globally Unique Identifier
HB - NIST Handbook
HDL - Hardware Description Language
HFMI - Hybrid Firmware Module Interface
HSMI - Hybrid Software Module Interface
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
HW - Hardware
IAM - Identity and Access Management
ICMC - International Cryptographic Module Conference
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
IG - Implementation Guidance
IIS - Internet Information Services
IP - Internet Protocol
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
IT - Infrastructure Technology
ITAR - International Traffic and Arms Restrictions
ITL - Information Technology Laboratory
IUT - Implementation Under Test
JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
JWT - JSON Web Token
MAC - Message Authentication Code
MIS - Module Information Structure
MQ - Message Queue
MQP - Message Queue Processor
MSI - Module Supplemental Information
mTLS - Mutual Transport Layer Security
NCCoE - National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
NIC - Network Interface Card
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLB - Network Load Balancer
NVLAP - National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program
OD - Other Documents
OS - Operating System
OTAR - Over the Air Rekeying
OTP - One-time Programmable
PAA - Processor Algorithm Accelerator
PAI - Processor Algorithm Implementation
PQC - Post-Quantum Cryptography
RDS - Relational Database Service
REST - Representational State Transfer (API)
S3 - Simple Storage Service
SC - Source Code
SFC - Secure File Collaboration
SFMI - Software Firmware Module Interface
SP - Special Publication
SQL - Structured Query Language
SQS - Simple Queue Service
SSDF - Secure Software Development Framework
SSP - Sensitive Security Parameter
SW - Software
SW-H - SW-HW hybrid
TE - Test Evidence
TLS - Transport Layer Security
TOTP - Time-based One Time Password
VE - Vendor Evidence
VPC - Virtual Private Cloud
WS - Workstream