Terms starting with “C”

Equipment designed specifically to facilitate efficient or reliable operation of cryptographic equipment, without performing cryptographic functions itself. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Equipment designed specifically to facilitate efficient or reliable operation of cryptographic equipment, but which does not itself perform cryptographic functions.

Associating two or more related elements of information using cryptographic techniques.

Explicitly defined continuous perimeter that establishes the physical and/or logical bounds of a cryptographic module and contains all the hardware, software, and/or firmware compo...

The hardware or firmware embodiment of the cryptographic logic in a secure telecommunications or automated information processing system. A cryptographic component may be a modular...

A voting system that uses cryptographic techniques to store an encrypted copyvof the voter’s ballot selections while maintaining ballot secrecy and allows elections outcomes to be...

Equipment that embodies a cryptographic logic.

A method of sanitization in which the media encryption key (MEK) for the encrypted Target Data is sanitized, making recovery of the decrypted Target Data infeasible. Source: NIST S...

A cryptographic algorithm that computes a numerical hash value based on a data file or electronic message. It should be infeasible in practice to find two distinct data files or me...

A function that maps a bit string of arbitrary length to a fixed length bit string. Approved hash functions satisfy the following properties: 1) (One-way) It is computationally inf...

NSA-approved products incorporating only UNCLASSIFIED components and UNCLASSIFIED cryptographic algorithms. This does include COTS, products approved by NSA, but does not include c...

Device or electronic key used to unlock the secure mode of cryptographic equipment. Source: NSA/CSS Manual Number 3-16 (COMSEC)

Any uninvestigated or unevaluated equipment malfunction or operator or COMSEC Account Manager error that has the potential to jeopardize the cryptographic security of a machine, of...

Function used to set the state of a cryptographic logic prior to key generation, encryption, or other operating mode.

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

The embodiment of one (or more) cryptographic algorithm(s) along with alarms, checks, and other processes essential to effective and secure performance of the cryptgraphic process(...

(slang CRYPTO) COMSEC material used to secure or authenticate information. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

All material, including documents, devices, or equipment that contains cryptographic information and is essential to the encryption, decryption, or authentication of telecommunicat...

The set of hardware, software, firmware, or some combination thereof that implements cryptographic logic or processes, including cryptographic algorithms, and is contained within t...

A precise specification of the security rules under which a cryptographic module will operate, including the rules derived from the requirements of this standard (FIPS 140-2) and a...

Validates cryptographic modules to Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 and other cryptography-based standards. The CMVP is a joint effort between National Institut...

Stations holding a common key. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Stations that hold a common key. Source: CNSSI No. 4005 (COMSEC); NSA/CSS Manual Number 3-16 (COMSEC)

Time span during which each key setting remains in effect. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)