Glossary

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System

BSD

Berkeley Software Distribution

FreeBSD

Operating system derived from BSD/4.4, see http://www.freebsd.org

GRUB

GRand Unified Bootloader: bootloader that can load several operating systems, see http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

OpenBSD

Operating system derived from BSD/4.4, see http://www.openbsd.org

opencryptoki

A PKCS#11 module that makes use of TPM, see http://opencryptoki.sourceforge.net/

OpenSSH

Open source implementation of the SSH protocol, see http://www.openssh.org

OpenSSL

Open source implementation of SSL and TLS protocols, see http://www.openssl.org

openssl_tpm_engine

Plugin (engine) for OpenSSL that makes use of TPM, see http://trousers.sourceforge.net/

PKCS#11

Public Key Cryptography Standards, a family of standards published by RSA Laboratories. PKCS#11 is the document number 11 of this family and describes an application programming interface (API) for access to cryptographic hardware tokens.

Port

Build script for third party software used on OpenBSD and FreeBSD

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

SSS

Secure Software Stack, another phrase for TSS

TC

Trusted Computing

TCG

Trusted Computing Group, see http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org

TCS

TSS Core Services

TCSI

TSS Core Services Interface

tcsd

Software component of TrouSerS that implements the TSS Core Services component of the TSS stack

TPM testsuite

Testsuite to check the function of TPM, see http://trousers.sourceforge.net/

TDD

TPM Device Driver

TDDL

TPM Device Driver Library

TDDLI

TPM Device Driver Library Interface

Trusted GRUB

The GRUB boot loader extended to use TC, see http://trustedgrub.sourceforge.net/

TLS

Transport Layer Security

TPM

Trusted Platform Module

TPMemulator

Software based TPM emulator, see http://tpm-emulator.berlios.de/

tpm_tools

Userland tools to support TPM, see http://trousers.sourceforge.net/

TrouSerS

A sourceforge project that offers an open source TCG Software Stack, see http://trousers.sourceforge.net/

TSP

TCG Service Provider

TSPI

TCG Service Provider Interface

TSS

TCG Software Stack