Title: GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS

Glossary and Abbreviations

AES    Advanced Encryption Standard; cryptographic algorithm developed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen in 1996 and selected 1997 by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US to be the successor of the old Digital Encryption Standard (DES)

AFIS    Automated Fingerprinting Identification Systems

ARLs    Authority Revocation Lists used in the context of the Belgian ID card

AP    Authentication Provider

ASP    Attribute Service Provider

Authentication    Verification of the identity of a person, a technical system or a process

BAC    Basic Access Control, security mechanism using cryptographic algorithms to protect the RFID of a MRTD against unauthorised access

CA    Certificate Authority

CIEd’Identità Elettronica, Italian ID card

CRLs    Certificate Revocation Lists used in the context of the Belgian ID card

CRR    Citizens Register of Residents (Zentrales Melderegister) used in the context of the Austrian “Bürgerkarte”

CSP    Certification Service Provider

DC    Digital Certificates

DNS    Deoxyribonucleic Acid

EAC    Extended Access Control, security mechanism proposed by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) to enhance the protection of RFID used in MRTDs against unauthorised access compared to BAC

ECHR    European Charta of Human Rights

EDPS    European Data Protection Supervisor

EER    Error to Enrol Rate

eID    Electronic IDentity

EPC    Electronic Product Code

FAR    False Acceptance Rate; successful authentication of a using biometric systems caused by failure of these biometric authentication systems

FRR    False Rejection Rate; failed authentication using biometric systems caused by failure of these biometric authentication systems

G2C    Government to Citizen

G2G    Government to Government

ICAO    International Civil Aviation Organisation

IP    Identity Provider

MRZ    Machine Readable Zone of ID documents

MRTD    Machine Readable Travel Document

NIR    National Identity Register

OCR    Optical Character Recognition

PEGS    Pan-European Governmental Service

PET    Privacy Enhancing Technologies

PIN    Personal Identification Number

PKCS    Public Key Cryptographic Standards

PKI    Public Key Infrastructure

PRC    Population Register Centre used in the context of the FINEID

RA    Registration Authorities

RFID    Radio Frequency Identification

RFID tag    Silicon chip with directly attached antenna for radio frequency transmission of data stored on the chip

RSA    (1) Asymmetric cryptographic algorithm developed by Rivest, Shamir and Adleman in 1977    
(2) RSA Security Inc.; American enterprise specialised on security solutions and products

SATU    unique electronic client identifier used in the context of the FINEID

SIM    Subscriber Identification Module

SR    Supplementary Register (Ergänzungsregister), used in the context of the Austrian “Bürgerkarte”

sPIN    Source Personal Identification Number used in the context of the Austrian “Bürgerkarte”

ssPI    Sector specific Personal Identifier used in the context of the Austrian “Bürgerkarte”

TEC    Treaty establishing the European Communion

TFI    Model to analyse interoperability in three layers: Technical, Formal and Informal

TTPS    Trusted Third Party Services

UHF    Ultra High Frequency (500 to 1000 MHz)

VIS    Visa Information System

XML    eXtensible Markup Language

WP29    Article 29 Data Protection Working Party