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