Glossary
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Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
The glossary contains an alphabetical list of terms, phrases, and abbreviations used in this
book. Some of the terms and definitions included in the glossary are reprinted from IEEE
Std 754-1985, IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic, copyright ©1985 by
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. with the permission of the IEEE.
AES. The Advanced Encryption Standard that will replace DES (Data
Encryption Standard) around the turn of the century. Rijndael
algorithm under final evaluation.
AFEU. Arc Four Execution Unit. Encryption engine which implements a
stream cipher compatible with the RC4 algorithm from RSA
Security, Inc.
Authentication. The action of verifying information such as identity,
ownership, or authorization.
Architecture. A detailed specification of requirements for a processor or
computer system. It does not specify details of how the processor or
computer system must be implemented; instead it provides a
template for a family of compatible implementations.
Big-endian. A byte-ordering method in memory where the address n of a
word corresponds to the most-significant byte. In an addressed
memory word, the bytes are ordered (left to right) 0, 1, 2, 3, with 0
being the most-significant byte. See Little-endian.
Block cipher. A symmetric cipher which encrypts a message by breaking it
down into blocks and encrypting each block.
Block cipher based MAC. MAC that is performed by using a block cipher
as a keyed compression function.
Buffer count registers. Contain the number of 32-bit words to be transferred
to/from an execution unit for a given operation.
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