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CDSA/CSSM Authenticaton: Human Recognition Service (HRS) API
Copyright © 2000 The Open Group

Glossary

API

Application Programming Interface

BIR

Biometric Identification Record

BSP

Biometric Service Provider

CDSA

Common Data Security Architecture

CSSM

Common Security Services Manager - the infrastructure parts of the CDSA

EMM

Elective Module Manager - an extensibility mechanism in CDSA supporting the dynamic addition of new categories of service, beyond the basic set of Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP), Trust Policy (TP), Authorization Computation (AC), Certificate Library (CL), and Data Storage Library (DL).

FAR

False Accept Rate - the probability that biometric data samples are falsely decided by the HRS as matching - that is, they should not match, but do.

FRR

False Reject Rate - the probability that biometric data samples are falsely decided by the HRS as not matching - that is, they should match, but do not.

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HRS

Human Recognition Service

IBIA

International Biometric Industry Association

MDS

Module Directory Service, a platform-independent registry service used by CDSA to name and locate software components and their security credentials.

Payload

Data wrapped inside biometric data for release to an application on successful verification of authenticity of a user. This can be any data that is useful to an application.

PIN

Personal Identification Number

SPI

Service Provider Interface
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