Terminology

The table below contains descriptions and explanations of all general terms and abbreviations used in this document. For specifications or provisions of national law, please refer to the appropriate appendix.

Term	Description
fiskaltrust.SecurityMechanism	Security mechanisms developed by fiskaltrust to meet legal national requirements for the fiscalization of POS-Systems. This security equipment is included in our products.
fiskaltrust.iPOS	Standardized interface for connecting cash registers with the fiskaltrust.SecurityMechanism
fiskaltrust.Journal	Facility for electronic storage of receipts on a storage device. The internal storage is done in a high-accuracy data format. A wide range of national provisions are managed in parallel.
fiskaltrust.Queue	Receipt processing equipment to guarantee required serial recording of receipts internally using continuous numbering of receipts and independent control of the cumulative counter. These components become an integral part of all processed receipts.
fiskaltrust.Middleware	Market independent, deployment independent, and communication technology independent configured set of fiskaltrust products.
fiskaltrust.Helipad	API for configuration purposes and data upload, accessible on Helipad.
fiskaltrust.Packages	API for versioned and packaged components, accessible on Packages.
fiskaltrust.Portal	Market dependent fiskaltrust.Portal where all configuration settings and the relevant extensions are managed.
AccountID	API access credential ID for the account. Can be found on the Account overview page in the portal.
Account AccessToken	API access credential Token for the account. Can be found on the Account overview page in the portal.
CashBoxId	API access credential ID for the CashBox. Can be found on the CashBox Configuration page in the portal.
CashBox AccessToken	API access credential Token for the CashBox. Can be found on the CashBox Configuration page in the portal.
CashBoxIdentification	Value to identify the Queue. Can be found on the Queue Configuration page in the portal.
Account	A company registers in the fiskaltrust.Portal with an account, which can, for example, close the agreement as PosOperator, PosDealer or PosCreator.
Receipt	A document sent to the fiskaltrust.Middleware or issued by a POS-System.
Certificate	A cryptographic certificate, not the certification document for a product. A data record that links cryptographic keys with other data, such as a person's identity, in a secured form. A certificate can be used, for example, to check whether a digital signature was created by a person authorized to do so.
Signature	With the aid of a secret signature key (the private key), a digital signature can be calculated for a digital message (i.e., for any data). This signature verifies the message's non-repudiable authorship and integrity with the public verification key. To assign a signature created with a signature key to a person, the associated verification key must be assigned to this person without any doubt.
Verification	In the context of digital signatures, checking secured data for whether it is unchanged and complete (integrity) and whether it originates from the alleged sender (authenticity). This check does not include an examination of the correctness of content, e.g., whether it has been entered correctly.

Table 1. Definition of Terms and Abbreviations (general)