Acronyms

Acronyms Abbrevation
ESM  Enterprise Security Management
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
HMAC

 Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Codes

HTTPS  Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (over TLS/SSL)
ECDSA

 Elliptical Curve Digital Signature Algorithm. Used for support of Suite B security for information classified up to top secret.

IDS Intrusion Detection System
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IETF   Internet Engineering Task Force
ISO International Organization for Standardization
MD5  Message-Digest Algorithm 5
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NSA  National Security Agency
NSS Network Security Services
PKCS Public Key Cryptography Standards
RSA

A public-key encryption technology developed by RSA Security, Inc., the
 Security Division of EMC Corporation. The acronym stands for Rivest,
 Shamir, and Adelman, the inventors of the technique.

SBU

Sensitive But Unclassified. Refers to information to be protected by a cryptographic method.

SHA Secure Hash Algorithm
SSL 

Secure Sockets Layer; related to TLS

TSL Transport Security Layer; the next generation of SSL
W3C   

  World Wide Web Consortium