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# Glossary

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AAI
    Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure

ECCA
    European Campus Card Association

eduPerson
    {term}`LDAP` Schema [eduPerson](https://wiki.refeds.org/display/STAN/eduPerson)

ESC
    European Student Card

ESCI
    European Student Card Initiative

ESCP
    European Student Card Project

ESI
    European Student Identifier

EUGLOH
    European University Alliance for Global Health

eduGAIN
    interfederation of {term}`AAI` identity federations around the world

GDPR
    [General Data Protection Regulation](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj)

HCE
    Host Card Emulation

HEI
HEIs
    Higher Education Institution

IDM
    Identity Management

IdP
    {term}`Shibboleth` Identity Provider

Service
    A service is the collected offer of a {term}`provider` that is accessible via a {term}`pass`.

SP
    {term}`Shibboleth` Service Provider

Shibboleth
    Shibboleth is a set of Software components provided by the [Shibboleth Consortium](https://www.shibboleth.net/), to provide a federated single-sign-on system / {term}`AAI`.
    Shibboleth software components are:

    - Identity Provider
    - Service Provider
    - Embedded Discovery Service (previously known as "Where are you from" (WAYF) Service)
    - Metadata Aggregator

ISCED
    [International Standard Classification of Education](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Classification_of_Education)

LDAP
    Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LMU
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

SAML
    Security Assertion Markup Language

OIDC
    Open ID Connect

OAUTH2
    Open Authorization Protocol (Version 2) as published via RFC6749 and RFC6750

SCHAC
    {term}`LDAP` [SCHema for ACademia](https://wiki.refeds.org/display/STAN/SCHAC)

SSI
    Self Sovereignty Identity

Card
    A Card is a physical medium, often made of plastic, that

Credential
    documentary or electronic evidence that a person has certain status or privileges

ID
    Identity Document / Identification - a document which may be used to prove a person's identity

Pass
Wallet Pass
    A (Wallet) Pass is a virtual representation of a card. It is context-less readable. It includes a visual design, a data structure, security mechanisms and visual personal data (photo, name..). The passport resides in a {term}`wallet` in the smartphone.

Vault
    A digital vault is a large secure date store. It is derived from the term vault that describes a secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store valuables. The noun safe or safe-deposit box, describing a box, usually made of metal, fireproof, in which personal valuables can be locked for safekeeping is a related term.

    In German the Terms: Tresorraum, Tresor, Schließfach

Wallet
    In Context of this Project is a digital Wallet a smartphone application that acts as a container for {term}`Pass`es. It is derived from the term wallet that describes a small case, often flat and made of leather, for keeping money, credit cards and identification documents

Tapper
    a natural is a person who uses the offers of the {term}`providers<Provider>` with their smartphone and the {term}`passes<Pass>` stored in it using the reader terminal.

Provider
    an organization who provides offers for {term}`tappers<Tapper>` on site using reading terminals and connected technology.

MaSA
    *Ma*ndant *S*pecific *A*pplication


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