| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| AH | Authentication Header (IP protocol 51) |
| CA | Certification Authority |
| CBC | Cipher Block Chaining |
| CRL | Certificate Revocation List |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard |
| ESP | Encapsulating Security Payload (IP protocol 50) |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standard |
| HMAC | keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (mostly 96 Bytes) (MD5, SHA) |
| ICV | Integrity Check Value |
| IKE | Internet Key Exchange (500/UDP, ISAKMP + OKEP, Main vs Aggressive Mode + Quick Mode) |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPsec | IP Security |
| ISAKMP | Internet SA and Key Management Protocol |
| IV | Initialization Vector |
| MAC | Message Authentication Code |
| MD5 | |
| OKEP | Oakley Key Exchange Protocol |
| PKC | Public Key Certificate |
| PKCS | Public Key Cryptography Standards |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PSK | Pre-Shared Keys |
| SA | Security Association (SPI + IP Destination Address + Security Protocol Identifier) |
| SAD | Security Association Database |
| SHA-1 | |
| SP | Security Policy |
| SPD | Security Policy Database |
| SPI | Security Parameters Index |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| X.509 | |
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| SSL | Secure Socket Layer |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security (TLS v1 == SSL v3.1) |