| API | Application Programming Interface |
| CA | Certificate Authority |
| CRL | Certificate Revocation List |
| CSR | Certificate Signing Request |
| DER | Distinguished Encoding Rules |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| EST | Enrolment over Secure Transport |
| GDS | Global Discovery Server |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| IANA | The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| JWT | JSON Web Token |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LDS | Local Discovery Server |
| LDS-ME | Local Discovery Server with the Multicast Extension |
| mDNS | Multicast Domain Name System |
| MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| OCSP | Online Certificate Status Protocol |
| PEM | Privacy Enhanced Mail |
| PFX | Personal Information Exchange |
| PKCS | Public Key Cryptography Standards |
| RSA | Rivest–Shamir–Adleman |
| SHA1 | Secure Hash Algorithm |
| SSL | Secure Socket Layer |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TPM | Trusted Platform Module |
| UA | Unified Architecture |
| UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery and Integration |