Terms and abbreviations

eIDAS – abbreviation for Regulation No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market. This regulation repeals European Union directive 1999/93/EC. The current and valid version of eIDAS was published by the European Parliament and European Council on July 7, 2014.

ETSI – European Telecommunications Standards Institute is an independent, not-for-profit organization for standardization in information and communications technology (ICT) in Europe with world-wide projection.

HTTPS – Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is a protocol used for secure communication over a computer network. HTTPS uses the HTTP protocol along with SSL or TLS. HTTPS is mainly used in communication between a web browser and a web server. Provides authentication, protection of the privacy and integrity of the exchanged data. The standard server-side port is 443 TCP.

ISO – the International Organization for Standardization creates international standards (ISO) and other documents in all areas of normalization except the electrotechnical area.

PAdES – digitally signed PDF documents based on the ISO-32000-1 standard or standards of the PAdES^[4][8] family.

CMS, PKCS7, CAdES – digitally signed (internally or externally) general data in CMS/PKCS7/CAdES format. It may be e.g. signed e-mail communication, audio or video recordings, etc. One of the examples of internally signed CAdES^[5][10] data are DMIS data messages.

XAdES – digitally signed XML documents based on the XAdES^[3][9][11] family standard.

PDF – a file format developed to present documents independent of software and hardware where they were created. Standardized as ISO 32000-1:2008.

PDF/A – official archiving version of the PDF file format. Narrows down the PDF format definition so that files saved as PDF/A can be opened without information loss in all future versions of software tools. Standardized as ISO 19005:1-2008, ISO 19005-2:2011 and ISO 19005-3:2012.

Document – signed PDF document or other signed data.

ISDOC – Information System Document - electronic invoicing format used in the Czech Republic.

DMIS – Data Message Information System (Informační systém datových schránek – ISDS).

OID – abbreviation of Object Identifier, identifier mechanism standardized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and ISO/IEC for naming any object, concept, or “thing” with a globally unambiguous persistent name.

OCSP – Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is an Internet protocol used to get the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate. It is described in RFC 6960^[13]. It was created as an alternative to certificate revocation lists (CRL), specifically addressing certain problems associated with using CRLs in a public key infrastructure (PKI).

602 ID – registered user (client) account where the purchased services and products are activated.

SDK – Software development kit is a collection of software development tools in one installable package. They ease the creation of applications for certain software packages, frameworks, platforms, computer systems, gaming consoles, operating systems or a similar platform.

TSL – Trusted List is a list of trusted certificate issuers (qualified trust service providers).

HSM – Hardware Security Module is a physical computing device that safeguards and manages generated and stored certificate keys (private or public).

Certificate – X509 data structure containing a public key and details of the key owner, key issuer, permitted manner of use and other relevant information specified by the corresponding CA policy.

CA – Certification authority, provider of services of electronic certificates for electronic signatures/seals/website certificates.

TLS – Transport Layer Security and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols designed to provide communications security over a computer network for services such as web browsing, email and other data transmissions.

URI – Uniform Resource Identifier is a string of characters with a defined structure that unambiguously identifies a specific resource (a document or service). Such identification enables interaction with representations of the resource over a computer network, typically the Internet,

WSDL – Web Services Description Language is a language that describes functions provided by a web service, and also describes the input and output of these functions (in other words, what the web service provides and how to request it). Because a web service basically communicates using the SOAP protocol, WSDL usually describes SOAP communication. WSDL is based on the XML format.

PSD2 - PSD2 is an abbreviation for Payment Service Directive 2 (European Parliament and Council Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of 25 November 2015 on payment services in the internal market), which replaces the previous directive. More information about the directive here.

QTSP - QTSP - Qualified Trust Service Provider as stipulated by eIDAS (No. 910/2014) and national legislation (for the Czech Republic No. 297/2016 Coll.)