Key Terms

Before you take the exam, be certain you are familiar with the following terms:

common criteria	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)	National Security Agency (NSA)
Hypertext Transport Protocol Secure (HTTPS)	Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
International Telecommunications Union (ITU)	Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS)
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)	Public Key Infrastructure X.509 (PKIX)
Internet Society (ISOC)	Request for Comments (RFC)
IP Security (IPSec)	Secure Electronic Transaction (SET)
Key Distribution Center (KDC)	Secure Hypertext Transport Protocol (S-HTTP)
key escrow agency	Secure Shell (SSH)
Key Exchange Algorithm (KEA)	Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
key generation	Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
key suspension	Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS)
key/certificate life cycle	World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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