| 2FA: | Two-Factor Authentication |
| 3DES: | Triple Data Encryption Algorithm |
| AES: | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| BSI: | Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik |
| CC: | Common Criteria |
| CCC: | Card Capability Container |
| CCID: | Chip card interface device, a USB protocol for a smartcard. |
| CHUID: | Card Holder Unique ID |
| CMS: | Credential Management System |
| CN: | Common name |
| CSPN: | Certificat de Sécurité de Premier Niveau |
| CSR: | Certificate Signing Request |
| CTAP2: | Client to Authenticator Protocol v2 |
| DES: | Data Encryption Standard |
| ECC: | Elliptic curve cryptography |
| FIDO: | Fast Identity Online |
| FIPS: | Federal Information Processing Standards (US government) covering codes and encryption standards. |
| HMAC: | Hash-based message authentication code |
| HOTP: | HMAC-based One-Time Password algorithm |
| KDF: | Key Derivation Function |
| NIST: | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| OATH: | The Initiative for Open Authentication is an organization that specifies two open authentication standards, TOTP and HOTP. |
| OTP: | One-Time Password |
| PBKDF2: | Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2 |
| PIN: | Personal Identification Number |
| PIV: | Personal Identity Verification |
| PKCS #11: | This is number eleven of the Public Key Cryptography Standards; it is also the API for creating and manipulating cryptographic tokens. |
| PUK: | PIN Unblocking Key |
| RFC: | Request For Comments |
| SHA: | Secure Hash Algorithm |
| stdin: | standard input - usually keyboard or CLI instructions |
| stdout: | standard output - usually print to screen |
| TOTP: | Time-based One-Time Password algorithm |
| U2F: | Universal Second Factor |
| W3C: | World Wide Web Consortium |
| X.509: | The standard defining the format of a public key certificate |