Home

Glossary

A2DP: Advanced Audio Distribution Profile
ACL: An access control list (ACL) is a list of permissions that are associated with an object, such as a file, directory, or other network resource. It specifies which users or components have permission to perform specific operations on an object.
AES: Advanced Encryption Standard
AES-CCMP: Advanced Encryption Standard Counter Mode CBCMAC Protocol
AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
APB: all points bulletin
API: application programming interface
APN: access point name
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AVRCP: Audio/Video Remote Control Profile
BCC: blind carbon copy
BlackBerry device key: The BlackBerry device key is a randomly generated key that a BlackBerry device uses to encrypt data on media cards.
BlackBerry device key store: The BlackBerry device key store stores certificates, key pairs, and PGP keys that a BlackBerry device can use to help protect messages, access web sites, and connect to an enterprise Wi-Fi network. To access the items in the key store, the user must type a key store password.
BlackBerry device memory: The BlackBerry device memory consists of the NV store, flash memory, RAM, on-board device memory, and BlackBerry device key store.
BlackBerry Domain: A BlackBerry Domain consists of the BlackBerry Configuration Database with its users and any BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances that connect to it.
BlackBerry inter-process protocol: The BlackBerry inter-process protocol is a Research In Motion proprietary protocol that generates the session key that BlackBerry Enterprise Solution components such as the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Mobile Voice System can use to communicate in a highly securely manner with each other. The BlackBerry inter-process protocol generates the session key based on the communication password.
BlackBerry MDS: BlackBerry Mobile Data System
BlackBerry MVS: BlackBerry Mobile Voice System
BlackBerry transport layer encryption: BlackBerry transport layer encryption (formerly known as standard BlackBerry encryption) uses a symmetric key encryption algorithm to help protect data that is in transit between a BlackBerry device and the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server when the data is outside an organization's firewall.
BSM: browser session manager
CAST: Computer Assisted Seriation Test
CBC: cipher block chaining
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
CDO: Collaboration Data Object
CHAP: Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CLDC: Connected Limited Device Configuration
CMIME: Compressed Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
COM: Component Object Model
communication password: The communication password is a password that BlackBerry Enterprise Solution components use for the BlackBerry inter-process protocol. The communication password is designed to prevent a potentially malicious user from viewing the data that the components send to each other.
content protection: Content protection helps protect user data on a locked BlackBerry device by encrypting the user data using the content protection key and ECC private key.
content protection key: The content protection key encrypts user data on a BlackBerry device when the device is locked.
CRL: certificate revocation list
DES: Data Encryption Standard
device transport key: The device transport key (formerly known as the master encryption key) is unique to a BlackBerry device. The BlackBerry device and BlackBerry Enterprise Server use the device transport key to encrypt the message keys.
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DMZ: A demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a neutral subnetwork outside of an organization's firewall. It exists between the trusted LAN of the organization and the untrusted external wireless network and public Internet.
DNS: A Domain Name System (DNS) is an Internet database that translates domain names that are meaningful and recognizable by people into the numeric IP addresses that the Internet uses.
DOM: Document Object Model
DSA: Digital Signature Algorithm
DSML: Directory Service Markup Language
DSML-enabled server: A BlackBerry device uses a DSML-enabled server to search for and download certificates.
DTMF: Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
DUN: Dial-up Networking
EAP: Extensible Authentication Protocol
EAP-FAST: Extensible Authentication Protocol Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling
EAP-GTC: Extensible Authentication Protocol Generic Token Card
EAP-TLS: Extensible Authentication Protocol Transport Layer Security
EAP-TTLS: Extensible Authentication Protocol Tunneled Transport Layer Security
ECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ECC private key: The ECC private key decrypts the data that a BlackBerry device received when the BlackBerry device was locked.
Enterprise Service Policy: The Enterprise Service Policy controls which BlackBerry devices can connect to a BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standards
flash memory: The flash memory is an internal file system on a BlackBerry device that stores application data and user data.
FQDN: fully qualified domain name
GAL: Global Address List
GAN: generic access network
global PIN encryption key: The global PIN encryption key is a key that is added to all BlackBerry devices during the manufacturing process. The global PIN encryption key permits devices to encrypt, decrypt, and authenticate PIN messages that are exchanged between devices.
GPS: Global Positioning System
HFP: Hands-Free Profile
HSP: Headset Profile
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer
IBM DB2 UDB: IBM DB2 Universal Database
IKE: Internet Key Exchange
IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity
IOT: interoperability test
IP address: An Internet Protocol (IP) address is an identification number that each computer or mobile device uses when it sends or receives information over a network, such as the Internet. This identification number identifies the specific computer or mobile device on the network.
IPPP: Internet Protocol Proxy Protocol
IPsec: Internet Protocol Security
IT administration command: An IT administration command is a command that you can send over the wireless network to protect sensitive information on a BlackBerry device or delete all BlackBerry device data.
IT policy: An IT policy consists of various IT policy rules that control the security features and behavior of BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, the BlackBerry Desktop Software, and the BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager.
IT policy rule: An IT policy rule permits you to customize and control the actions that BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, the BlackBerry Desktop Software, and the BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager can perform.
Java ME: Java Platform, Micro Edition
JRE: Java Runtime Environment
JVM: Java® Virtual Machine
LAN: local area network
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LEAP: Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
LED: light-emitting diode
LMM: The Low Memory Manager (LMM) is an application on the BlackBerry device that deletes medium-priority items, such as old email messages and out-of-date calendar entries, when the amount of available flash memory on the BlackBerry device is less than 400 KB.
LTPA: Lightweight Third-Party Authentication
MAC: message authentication code
MAP: Message Access Profile
MAPI: Messaging Application Programming Interface
MCC: mobile country code
MDS: Mobile Data System
messaging server: A messaging server sends and processes messages and provides collaboration services, such as updating and communicating calendar and address book information.
MFH: message from handheld
MIDP: Mobile Information Device Profile
MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
mirror database: In database mirroring, a mirror database is a standby copy of a principal database.
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service
MNC: mobile network code
MS-CHAP: Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
MSDE: Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine
MTH: message to handheld
NAT: network address translation
NSPI: Name Service Provider Interface
NTLM: NT LAN Manager
NV store: The NV store is a nonvolatile store that persists in application storage on a BlackBerry device. Only the operating system of the BlackBerry device can write to it. Third-party applications cannot write to the NV store.
OBEX: Object Exchange
OCSP: Online Certificate Status Protocol
PAC: proxy auto-configuration
PAP: Push Access Protocol
PBX: Private Branch Exchange
PEAP: Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol
PFS: Perfect Forward Secrecy
PIM: personal information management
PIN: personal identification number
PKCS: Public-Key Cryptography Standards
PKI: Public Key Infrastructure
principal database: In database mirroring, a principal database is the database that starts the mirroring session.
PSK: pre-shared key
RNG: random number generator
RPC: remote procedure call
RTF: Rich Text Format
RTP: Real-time Transport Protocol
SAN: subject alternative name
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm
SIM: Subscriber Identity Module
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
S/MIME: Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
SMS: Short Message Service
SMTP
SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
SPP: Serial Port Profile
SQL: Structured Query Language
SRP: Server Routing Protocol
SRP authentication: SRP authentication is an authentication method that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Infrastructure use to authenticate with each other.
SRP authentication key: The SRP authentication key is a 20-byte shared encryption key that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Infrastructure use to authenticate with each other during SRP authentication.
SRP ID: The SRP ID is a unique identifier for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server uses to identify itself to the BlackBerry Infrastructure during SRP authentication.
SSID: service set identifier
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is a set of communication protocols that is used to transmit data over networks, such as the Internet.
TKIP: Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
TLS: Transport Layer Security
Triple DES: Triple Data Encryption Standard
TUI: telephone UI
UCS: Universal Content Stream
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
UID: unique identifier
UMA: Unlicensed Mobile Access
UNC: Universal Naming Convention
USB: Universal Serial Bus
UTF: UCS Transformation Format
UTF-8: 8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format
VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN: virtual private network
WAN: wide area network
WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
WEP: Wired Equivalent Privacy
witness: In database mirroring, a witness is a Microsoft SQL Server instance that permits the mirror database to know when to promote itself.
WLAN: wireless local area network
WTLS: Wireless Transport Layer Security
XML: Extensible Markup Language