Glossary
- AES
- An abbreviation for Advanced Encryption Standard).
- BPF
- An abbreviation for Berkley Packet Filter.
- BSS
- An abbreviation for Basic Service Set.
Also known as Infrastructure Mode.
- CA
- An abbreviation for Certification Authority.
- EAP-TLS
- An abbreviation for Extensible Authentication Protocol - Transport Layer Security.
- IBSS
- An abbreviation for Independent Basic Service Set.
- mbuf
- An abbreviation for memory buffer, the internal representation
of a packet used by NetBSD and io-pkt.
- NAT
- An abbreviation for Network Address Translation.
- SA
- An abbreviation for Security Association.
- SOHO
- An abbreviation for Small Office, Home Office.
- SPD
- An abbreviation for security policy database.
- spoofing
- The faking of IP addresses, typically for malicious purposes.
- SSID
- An abbreviation for Service Set Identifier.
- STP
- An abbreviation for Spanning Tree Protocol.
- TDP
- An abbreviation for Transparent Distributed Processing,
the QNX Neutrino native networking (Qnet) that lets you access resources on other
QNX Neutrino systems as if they were on your own machine.
- TKIP
- An abbreviation for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.
- TLS
- An abbreviation for Transport Layer Security.
- TTLS
- An abbreviation for Tunneled Transport Layer Security.
- UDP
- An abbreviation for User Datagram Protocol.
- WAP
- An abbreviation for Wireless Access Point.
Also known as a base station.
- WEP
- An abbreviation for Wired Equivalent Privacy.
- WLAN
- An abbreviation for Wireless Local Area Network.
- WPA
- An abbreviation for Wi-Fi Protected Access.