AICPA | American Institute of Certified Public Accountants |
CA | Certification Authority |
CAA | Certification Authority Authorization |
ccTLD | Country Code Top-Level Domain |
CICA | Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants |
CP | Certificate Policy |
CPS | Certification Practice Statement |
CRL | Certificate Revocation List |
DBA | Doing Business As |
DNS | Domain Name System |
FIPS | (US Government) Federal Information Processing Standard |
FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name |
IM | Instant Messaging |
IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
NIST | (US Government) National Institute of Standards and Technology |
OCSP | Online Certificate Status Protocol |
OID | Object Identifier |
PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
RA | Registration Authority |
S/MIME | Secure MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
TLD | Top-Level Domain |
TLS | Transport Layer Security |
VOIP | Voice Over Internet Protocol |