Acronyms

The following acronyms may be used in this document in the description of IP security (IPsec).

IPsec-related Acronyms

Acronym

Full Form of Abbreviation

AES-128-GCM

Advanced Encryption Standard with 128-bit key size in Galois Counter Mode

AES-256-GCM

Advanced Encryption Standard with 256-bit key size in Galois Counter Mode

AES-128-CBC

Advanced Encryption Standard with 128-bit key size in Cipher Block Chaining Mode

AES-256-CBC

Advanced Encryption Standard with 256-bit key size in Cipher Block Chaining Mode

CA

Certificate Authority

CDP

CRL Distribution Point

CRL

Certificate Revocation List

CSR

Certificate Signing Request

DH

Diffie-Hellman

DPD

Dead Peer Detection

ECDSA

Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

ESP

Encapsulating Security Payload protocol

IKEv2

Internet Key Exchange protocol, version 2

IPsec

IP Security

NAT

Network Address Translation

OSCP

Online Certificate Status Protocol

PAT

Port Address Translation

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

PRF

Pseudo Random Function

RSA

Rivest-Shamir-Adleman

SA

Security Association

SAD

Security Association Database

SCEP

Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol

SHA

Secure Hash Algorithm

SPD

Security Policy Database

SPI

Security Parameters Index (used to identify an SA)

TOS

Type of Service field in IPv4 header

VRF

Virtual Routing and Forwarding

VTI

Virtual Tunnel Interface