Electronic Control Unit (ECU)
Embedded system in automotive electronics that controls one or more of the electrical systems or subsystems of a vehicle.
Glossary of Terms
To help you find your way through major technical terms used in the cybersecurity field
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Tools for the design and production of electronic systems ranging from printed circuits to integrated circuits
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
Encryption technique that provides public-key encryption similar to RSA. While the security strength of RSA is based on very large prime numbers, ECC uses the mathematical theory of elliptic curves and achieves the same security level with much smaller keys.
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
Digital signature algorithm with public key, variant of DSA. It uses cryptography on elliptic curves.
Entropy
A measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system - A measure of the amount of uncertainty an attacker faces to determine the value of a secret.