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1.1 Glossary

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This document uses the following terms:

certification authority (CA): A third party that issues public key certificates. Certificates serve to bind public keys to a user identity. Each user and certification authority (CA) can decide whether to trust another user or CA for a specific purpose, and whether this trust is to be transitive. For more information, see [RFC3280].

virtual smart card (VSC): A combination of hardware, software and firmware that implements the same interface as a smart card but is not necessarily restricted to the same physical form factors. For example, virtual smart cards may be implemented entirely in software, or they may use the cryptographic capabilities of specific hardware such as a TPM.

MAY, SHOULD, MUST, SHOULD NOT, MUST NOT: These terms (in all caps) are used as defined in [RFC2119]. All statements of optional behavior use either MAY, SHOULD, or SHOULD NOT.