6lowPAN	IPv6 over low-power Wireless Personal Area Network
API	Application Programming Interface
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AVX	Advanced Vector Extension
BLE	Bluetooth Low Energy
CA	Certificate Authority
DDoS	Distributed Denial of Service
DSA	Digital Signature Algorithm
DTLS	Datagram Transport Layer Security
ECDHE	Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
ECDSA	Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
https	HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
IoT	Internet of Things
IIoT	Industrial Internet of Things
KEM	Key Encapsulation Mechanism
LWE	Learning with Errors
lwIP	Lightweight IP
MAC	Message Authentication Code
MITM	Man in the Middle
MQTT	Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
NIST	National Institute for Standards and Technology
OQS	Open Quantum Safe
PFS	Perfect Forward Secrecy
PKC	Public Key Cryptography
PKI	Public Key Infrastructure
PQC	Post-Quantum Cryptography
QC	Quantum Computer
RAM	Random-Access Memory
RSA	Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TLS	Transport Layer Security
SHA	Secure Hash Algorithm
SLB	Structured Lattice Based
SoC	System on Chip
SotA	State-of-the-Art
XOF	Extendable Output Functions