A–E
- Advanced electronic signature (AdES)
- An electronic signature meeting the linkage, identification, control and change-detection requirements in eIDAS.
- ASiC
- An ETSI container format that associates one or more data objects with signatures or timestamps.
- Certificate authority (CA)
- An entity that issues and manages public-key certificates; it may perform one part of a wider trust service.
- Certificate Policy (CP)
- A named set of rules indicating the applicability of certificates to a community or class of application with common security requirements.
- Certification Practice Statement (CPS)
- A statement of the practices a certification authority employs in issuing, managing, revoking and renewing certificates.
- Conformity assessment body (CAB)
- A body accredited to perform defined conformity-assessment activities. Its exact role depends on the applicable scheme.
- Digital signature
- A cryptographic mechanism that can support integrity and origin authentication. Legal electronic-signature concepts also include people, intent and context.
- DSS
- Digital Signature Service, the European Commission-supported open-source Java library for signature creation, augmentation and validation.
- eIDAS
- The EU framework for electronic identification and trust services, based on Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 as amended.
- Electronic seal
- Electronic data attached to or logically associated with other data to support origin and integrity for a legal person.
- Electronic signature
- Electronic data attached to or logically associated with other electronic data and used by a signatory to sign.
F–P
- List of Trusted Lists (LOTL)
- The European Commission’s signed list identifying the EU/EEA national trusted lists.
- Object identifier (OID)
- A globally unique hierarchical identifier used in certificates, policies, algorithms and other technical structures.
- OCSP
- The Online Certificate Status Protocol, used to obtain status information about identified certificates.
- PAdES, XAdES and CAdES
- ETSI families of advanced-signature profiles for PDF, XML and CMS-based signatures respectively.
- PKI
- Public key infrastructure: the policies, roles, services, systems and controls used to issue and manage certificates and keys.
Q–Z
- Qualified trust service
- A trust service meeting the applicable requirements and holding qualified status through the relevant assessment and supervisory process.
- Qualified trust-service provider (QTSP)
- A provider that supplies one or more qualified trust services and has been granted qualified status by the relevant supervisory body.
- Relying party
- A person or system that relies on a certificate, signature, seal, trust service or associated evidence.
- Trusted list
- An authoritative, signed structure describing trust-service providers, services and status information under a defined scheme.
- Trust service
- A regulated or contractual service that supports electronic transactions, such as certificate issuance, timestamps, validation, preservation or registered delivery.
- Validation policy
- The rules, constraints, trust inputs and interpretation used to determine and report a validation outcome.