Security Abbreviations

Security Abbreviations

AES
  

Advanced Encryption Standard. The AES Algorithm is a shared (secret)-key encryption algorithm

AK
  

Authorisation Key (PKMv1 and PKMv2)

CA
  

Certification Authority

CBC
  

Cipher Block Chaining mode. An AES mode

CCM
  

Counter with CBC-MAC (CBC: Cipher Block Chaining mode). AES CCM is an authenticate-and-encrypt block cipher mode used in IEEE 802.16 for data encryption

CMAC
  

Cipher-based Message Authentication Code

CMAC_KEY_D
  

CMAC KEY for the Downlink. Used for authenticating messages in the downlink direction

CMAC_KEY_U
  

CMAC KEY for the Uplink. Used for authenticating messages in the uplink direction

DES
  

Data Encryption Standard. Shared (secret)-key encryption algorithm

EAP
  

Extensible Authentication Protocol. Mutual authentification protocol framework

EIK
  

EAP Integrity Key

GKEK
  

Group Key Encryption Key (PKMv2)

GTEK
  

Group Traffic Encryption Key (PKMv2)

HMAC
  

Hashed Message Authentication Code

HMAC_KEY_D
  

HMAC Key for the Downlink. Used for authenticating messages in the downlink direction

HMAC_KEY_S
  

HMAC Key in the Mesh mode

HMAC_KEY_U
  

HMAC Key for the Uplink. Used for authenticating messages in the uplink direction

KEK
  

Key Encryption Key (PKMv1 and PKMv2)

MAK
  

MBS Authorisation Key (PKMv2)

MGTEK
  

MBS Group Traffic Encryption Key (PKMv2)

MTK
  

MBS Traffic Key (PKMv2)

PAK
  

Primary Authorisation Key (PKMv2)

PKM
  

Privacy Key Management protocol

PMK
  

Pairwise Master Key (PKMv2)

PN
  

Packet Number

RSA
  

Rivest Shamir Adleman. Public key encryption algorithm used to encrypt some MAC management security messages, using the SS public key

SA
  

Security Association. Set of security information agreed between a BS and one or more of its client SSs (methods for data encryption, data authentication, keys exchange, etc.)

SAID
  

Security Association IDentifier. A 16-bit identifier shared between the BS and the SS that uniquely identifies a security association

SHA
  

Secure Hash algorithm

TEK
  

Traffic Encryption Key (PKMv1 and PKMv2)