684GLOSSARY

GMK

Group master key. A cryptographic key used to derive a group transient

 

key (GTK) for the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Advanced

 

Encryption Standard (AES).

greenfield network

An original deployment of a telecommunications network.

GRE tunnel

A virtual link between two remote points on a network, created by

 

means of the Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunneling protocol.

 

GRE encapsulates packets within a transport protocol supported by the

 

network.

GTK

Group transient key. A cryptographic key used to encrypt broadcast and

 

multicast packets for transmissions using the Temporal Key Integrity

 

Protocol (TKIP) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

group master key

See GMK.

group transient key

See GTK.

H.323

A set of International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication

 

Standardization Sector (ITU-T) standards that define a framework for

 

the transmission of real-time voice signals over IP packet-switched

 

networks.

hash

A one-way algorithm from whose output the input is computationally

 

infeasible to determine. With a good hashing algorithm you can

 

produce identical output from two identical inputs, but finding two

 

different inputs that produce the same output is computationally

 

infeasible. Hash functions are used widely in authentication algorithms

 

and for key derivation procedures.

HiperLAN

High-performance radio local area network. A set of wireless LAN

 

(WLAN) communication standards used primarily in European countries

 

and adopted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute

 

(ETSI).

HMAC

Hashed message authentication code. A function, defined in RFC 2104,

 

for keyed hashing for message authentication. HMAC is used with

 

MD5 and the secure hash algorithm (SHA).

hashed message

See HMAC.

authentication code

 

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