Introduction to Network Security, 2nd Edition

Appendix F

Acronyms

ACK	Acknowledgement
ACL	Access Control List
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AH	Authentication Header
AJAX	Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
ALG	Application-Level Gateway; Application-Layer Gateway
AMS	Anti-Malicious Software
ANSI	American National Standard Institute
AP	Access Point
ARP	Address Resolution Protocol
AS	Authentication Server
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC	Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ASP	Active Server Page
AVI	Audio-Video Interleaved
AWS	Amazon Web Services
BTC	Bitcoin unit
CA	Certificate Authority
CBC	Cipher-Block-Chaining Mode
CBC-MAC	Cipher-Block Chaining Message Authentication Code
CCMP	Counter Mode-CBC MAC Protocol
CEO	Chief Executive Officer
CERT	Computer Emergency Response Team (USA)
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
CIA	Central Intelligence Agency (USA)
CIFS	Common Internet File System

CHF	Cryptographic Hash Function
CLG	Circuit-Level Gateway
COFF	Common Object File Format
COM	Component Object Model
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CQA1	Chosen-Query Attack
CAQ2	Adaptive Chosen-Query Attack
CRC	Cyclic Redundancy Check
CTR	Center
CWG	Conficker Working Group
DAC	Data Authentication Code
DES	Data Encryption Standard
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DiF	Distributed Firewall
DIS	Digital Immune System
DLL	Dynamic Link Library
DMVPN	Dynamic Multipoint VPN
DMZ	Demilitarized Zone
DDoS	Distributed Denial of Service ...