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Name :   Carol Julian
Organization :   KSU
Post Date :   9/14/2005

Glossary Comments
Glossary Term :  Cryptographic Key
Definition :  
Comment :  Current:

Value used to control cryptographic operations, such as decryption, ncryption, signature generation or signature verification.  

Change:

A value used to control cryptographic operations,such as decryption,encryption, signature generation or signature verification. For the purposes of this document, keys must provide at least 80-bits of
protection. This means that it must be as hard to find an unknown key or decrypt a message, given the formation exposed to an eavesdropper by an authentication, as to guess an 80-bit random number.

Nature of change:

Defined per source: NIST SP 800-63
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-63/SP800-63v6_3_3.pdf