Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 822

Netscape Security Services (NSS) A set of libraries designed to support
cross-platform development of security-enabled communications applications.
Applications built using the NSS libraries support the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
protocol for authentication, tamper detection, and encryption, and the PKCS #11
protocol for cryptographic token interfaces. Netscape uses NSS to support these
features in a wide range of products, including Certificate Management System.
NSS is also available separately as a software development kit.
nonrepudiation The inability by the sender of a message to deny having sent the
message. A digital signature provides one form of nonrepudiation.
object signing A technology that allows software developers to sign Java code,
JavaScript scripts, or any kind of file and allows users to identify the signers and
control access by signed code to local system resources.
object-signing certificate A certificate whose associated private key is used to
sign objects using the technology known as object signing.
OCSP Online Certificate Status Protocol.
one-way hash A number of fixed length generated from data of arbitrary length
with the aid of a hashing algorithm. The number (also called a message digest) has
two characteristics: (1) It is unique to the hashed data. Any change in the data, even
deleting or altering a single character, results in a different value. (2) The content of
the hashed data cannot, for all practical purposes, be deduced from the hash.
operation The specific operation, such as read or write, that is being allowed or
denied in an access control instruction.
output In the context of the certificate profile feature, it defines the resulting form
from a successful certificate enrollment for a particular certificate profile. You set
up each output, which then dynamically creates the form from all outputs
configured for this enrollment.
password-based authentication Confident identification by means of a name
and password. See also authentication, certificate-based authentication.
PKCS #7 The public-key cryptography standard that governs signing and
encryption.
PKCS #10 The public-key cryptography standard that governs certificate
requests.
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