Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide
Release 9.0.1

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F
Abbreviations and Acronyms

This appendix defines abbreviations and acronyms used in the Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide (Table F-1):

Table F-1 Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviation / Acronym  Description 

3DES 

A version of the DES encryption algorithm that provides triple-encryption; see Triple-DES. 

ACL 

Access Control List 

CA 

Certificate Authority 

CBC 

Cipher-Block-Chaining 

CDS 

Cell Directory Service 

CORBA 

Common Object Request Broker Architecture 

DBCA 

Oracle Database Configuration Assistant 

DCE 

Distributed Computing Environment 

DES 

Data Encryption Standard (U.S.) 

DES40 

Data Encryption Standard with 40-bit encryption keys 

DES56 

Data Encryption Standard with 56-bit encryption keys 

DIT 

Directory Information Tree 

DN 

Distinguished Name 

ESM 

Oracle Enterprise Security Manager 

FIPS 

Federal Information Processing Standard 

GSSAPI 

Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface 

IIOP 

Internet Inter-ORB Protocol 

ISM 

Bull Integrated System Management 

ISP 

Internet Service Provider 

JDBC 

Java Database Connectivity 

JDK 

Java Development Kit 

JRE 

Java Runtime Environment 

LAN 

Local Area Network 

LDAP 

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 

MD4 

Message Digest 4; a checksumming algorithm that produces a128-bit hash total (checksum); see MD5. 

MD5 

Message Digest 5; a checksumming algorithm that produces a 128-bit hash total (checksum); stronger successor to MD4. 

NetCA 

Oracle Net Configuration Assistant 

OCI 

Oracle Call Interface 

OID 

Oracle Internet Directory 

OSF 

Open Software Foundation 

PIN 

Personal Identification Number 

PKE 

Public Key Encoding 

PKI 

Public Key Infrastructure 

RADIUS 

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service 

RC4 

A symmetric encryption algorithm from RSA Data Security, Inc. 

RSA 

RSA Data Security, Inc.; refers to the RSA encryption module 

SASL 

Simple Authentication and Security Layer 

SHA 

Secure Hash Algorithm 

SSL 

Secure Sockets Layer 

SSO 

Single Sign-on 

Triple-DES 

A version of the DES encryption algorithm that provides triple-encryption; see 3DES 

WAN 

Wide Area Network 


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