Appendix A Terms and abbreviations

Table 17. List of abbreviations

Term

Meaning

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

CA

Certificate authority

CC

Common Criteria

DAM

Dictionary attack mitigation mechanism

Data byte

Byte from the TPM command or answer or register value.

DES

Data Encryption Standard

EC

Elliptic curve

ECC

Elliptic curve cryptography

ECDDA

Elliptic curve direct anonymous attestation

ECDH

Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman

ECDSA

Elliptic curve digital signature algorithm

ECSchorr

Elliptic curve with Schnorr signature code

EK

Endorsement key

eps

Endorsement primary seed

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standard

FU

Firmware update

GPIO

General-purpose I/O

HLK

Hardware Lab Kit (Windows®)

HMAC

Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication

I²C

Inter-integrated circuit

lfpm

Linear feet per minute

HSM

Hardware security module

HWINTF

Hardware interface layer in the TPM’s internal firmware; used to drive communication.

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NV

Non-volatile (memory)

OAEP

Optimal asymmetric encryption padding

OEM

Original equipment manufacturer

OIAP

Object-Independent Authorization Protocol

OSAP

Object Specific Authorization Protocol

PCR

Platform Configuration register

PKCS

Public-key cryptography standards

PKI

Public-key infrastructure

PSS

Probabilistic signature scheme

RSA

Rivest Shamir Adelman

RSAES

Rivest Shamir Adelman encryption/decryption scheme

RSASSA

Rivest Shamir Adelman signature scheme with appendix

RTM

Root of trust for measurement

RTR

Root of trust for reporting

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