NDS may stand for: *

Low German : : : : : (70,000) (30,000) (8,000) , familycolor = Indo-European , fam2 = Germanic , fam3 = West Germanic , fam4 = North Sea Germanic , ancestor = Old Saxon , ancestor2 = Middle L ...

( nl, Nedersaksisch, links=no, german: Niederdeutsche Sprache, links=no, ISO 639-2 language code: nds), a West Germanic language native to Northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands *

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

(german: Niedersachsen, links=no), a federal state of Germany *

NDS Group Cisco Videoscape (formerly NDS Group and currently known as Synamedia) was a majority owned subsidiary of News Corp, which develops software for the pay TV industry (including cable, satellite and others). NDS Group was established in 1988 as an I ...

, a company specializing in television technology, including digital rights management, renamed Cisco Videoscape after its acquisition ** NDS is also used as shorthand for

VideoGuard VideoGuard (sometimes referred to simply as ''NDS''), produced by NDS, is a digital encryption system for use with conditional access television broadcasting. It is used on digital satellite television systems - some of which are operated by News ...

, the encryption system created by NDS Group *

National Directorate of Security prs, ریاست عمومی امنیت ملی , nativename_r = , seal = National Directorate of Security Logo.png , seal_width = , seal_caption = Seal of the National Directorate of Security , formed = , precedin ...

, the primary foreign and domestic intelligence agency of Afghanistan *

Nintendo DS The is a handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. The DS, an initialism for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld games: two LCD screens working in tan ...

, a 2004 portable game system *

Novell Directory Services eDirectory is an X.500-compatible directory service software product from NetIQ. Previously owned by Novell, the product has also been known as Novell Directory Services (NDS) and sometimes referred to as ''NetWare Directory Services''. NDS was i ...

, former name for NetIQ eDirectory, directory service software for a network *

New Data Seal In cryptography, New Data Seal (NDS) is a block cipher that was designed at IBM in 1975, based on the Lucifer algorithm that became DES. The cipher uses a block size of 128 bits, and a very large key size of 2048 bits. Like DES it has a 16-ro ...

, a block cipher encryption algorithm that was designed at IBM in 1975 *

News Distribution Service News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. New ...

, operated by the UK government's

Central Office of Information The Central Office of Information (COI) was the UK government's marketing and communications agency. Its Chief Executive reported to the Minister for the Cabinet Office. It was a non-ministerial department, and became an executive agency and a t ...

* ', a political party in Burkina Faso known in English as

New Social Democracy New Social Democracy (in French: ''Nouvelle Démocratie Sociale, NDS'') is a political party in Burkina Faso. Its secretary general is Mamadou Samba Barry New Social Democracy (in French: ''Nouvelle Démocratie Sociale, NDS'') is a political ...

Navigation Data Standard The Navigation Data Standard (NDS) is a standardized format for automotive-grade navigation databases, jointly developed by automobile manufacturers and suppliers. NDS is an association registered in Germany. Members are automotive OEMs, map dat ...

, a format for automotive-grade navigation databases * New Democratic Party ( sr, Нова демократска странка, links=no, ), temporarily in 2014 the name for the Serbian political party

Social Democratic Party (Serbia) The Social Democratic Party ( sr-cyrl, Социјалдемократска странка, Socijaldemokratska stranka, SDS) is a centre-left political party in Serbia. The party was founded and is headed by Boris Tadić, who was previously pr ...

(, ', SDS) *

Nick Dal Santo Nick Dal Santo (born 22 February 1984) is the senior coach of the St Kilda Football Club in the AFL Women's competition and a retired Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda and North Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AF ...

(born 1984), Australian Rules footballer *

NASA Docking System The NASA Docking System (NDS) is a Docking and berthing of spacecraft, spacecraft docking and berthing mechanism used on the International Space Station (ISS), the Orion spacecraft, and the Boeing Starliner, Starliner. The NDS is NASA's implement ...

, a spacecraft docking and berthing mechanism being developed for future US human spaceflight vehicles *

National Defense Strategy The National Defense Strategy (or NDS) is produced by the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and is signed by the United States Secretary of Defense as the United States Department of Defense's (DoD) capstone strategic guidanc ...

of the United States Secretary of Defense *

Norra Djurgårdsstaden Norra Djurgårdsstaden (officially ''Stockholm Royal Seaport'' in English) is a large area of central Stockholm, Sweden. The area is located in the borough of Östermalm (borough), Östermalm and is undergoing brownfield redevelopment. The area ...

, a neighborhood in Stockholm

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