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SecureMag User Manual
3.
Terms and Abbreviations
AAMVA American Association of Motor Vehicle Administration
ABA
American Banking Association
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
ASIC
Application Specific Integrated Circuit
BPI
Bits per Inch
CADL
California Drivers License Format (obsolescent)
CE
European Safety and Emission approval authority
COM
Serial Communication
CTS
Clear-To-Send
CDC
USB to serial driver (Communication Device Class)
DES
Data Encryption Standard
DUKPT Derived Unique Key Per Transaction
DMV
Department of Motor Vehicle
GND
Signal Ground
HID
Human Interface Device
IPS
Inches per Second
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
JIS
Japanese Industrial Standard
JPOS
Java for Retail Point Of Sale
KB
Keyboard
KSN
Key Serial Number
LED
Light Emitting Diode
LRC
Longitudinal Redundancy Check Character.
MAC
Message Authentication Code
MSR
Magnetic Stripe Reader
OLE
Object Linking and Embedding
OPOS
OLE for Retail Point Of Sale
OTP
One Time Programmable
PAN
Primary account number
PCI
Payment Card Industry
PID
USB Product ID
POS
Point of Sale
PPMSR Serial Port Power Magstripe Reader
P/N
Part Number
PS/2
IBM Personal System/2 Keyboard Interface
RTS
Request To Send
SPI
Serial Peripheral Interface
T1, T2, T3
Track 1 data, Track 2 data, Track 3 data
TDES
Triple Data Encryption Standard
VID
USB Vendor ID
Note: many unusual words used in this document are defined in the Function ID
table on page.