| 2PC | Secure Two-party computation |
| A2M | Addition-to-Multiplication |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| DEAP | Dual Execution with Asymmetric Privacy |
| ECB | Electronic codebook (encryption mode) |
| ECDH | Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman |
| GC | Garbled Circuit |
| GCM | Galois/Counter Mode |
| GHASH | GCM hash |
| HMAC | Hash-based Message Authentication Code |
| M2a | Multiplication-to-Addition |
| MAC | Message Authentication Code |
| MPC | Secure Multi-party computation |
| OT | oblivious transfer |
| PMS | Pre master secret (TLS) |
| PRF | Pseudo Random Function |
| PRG | pseudorandom generator |
| PSE | Privacy Stewards of Ethereum (formerly "Privacy and Scaling Explorations") |
| RSA | Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (public-key cryptosystem) |
| TLS | transport layer security |