Terms starting with “K”

The high-assurance cryptographic component in electronic key management system (EKMS) designed to provide for the local generation of keying material, encryption, and decryption of...

Key used to initialize a keystream generator for the production of other electronically generated key. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

A function in the lifecycle of keying material; mechanisms and processes that allow authorized entities to retrieve or reconstruct keying material from key backup or archive. Sourc...

A publicly or privately controlled asset necessary to sustain continuity of government and/or economic operations, or an asset that is of great historical significance. Related Ter...

Sequence of symbols (or their electrical or mechanical equivalents) produced in a machine or auto-manual cryptosystem to combine with plain text to produce cipher text, control tra...

Identification information associated with certain types of electronic key.

Punched or magnetic tape containing key. Printed key in tape form is referred to as a key list. Source: NSA/CSS Manual Number 3-16 (COMSEC)

A key-establishment procedure whereby one party (the sender) selects and encrypts the keying material and then distributes the material to another party (the receiver). When used i...

A function performed on a cryptographic key in order to compute a new, but related, key. Source: NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev 3

Irreversible cryptographic process for modifying key. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

A method of encrypting keying material (along with associated integrity information) that provides both confidentiality and integrity protection using a symmetric key algorithm. (S...

Cryptographic logic using previous key to produce key.

A key that encrypts other key (typically Traffic Encryption Keys or TEKs) for transmission or storage. Source: CNSSI No. 4005 (COMSEC)

A message authentication code that uses a cryptographic key in conjunction with a hash function.

A message authentication code that uses a cryptographic key in conjunction with a hash function. (FIPS 198; CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Key, code, or authentication information in physical, electronic, or magnetic form. It includes key tapes and list, codes, authenticators, one-time pads, floppy disks, and magnetic...

Devices or programmes in operation between the computer and the keyboard to record keystrokes.

Repositories that contain cryptographic artifacts like certificates and private keys that are used for cryptographic protocols such as TLS

The process used to view or record both the keystrokes entered by a computer user and the computer's response during an interactive session. Keystroke monitoring is usually conside...

A voting method intermediate between voting at a polling place and fully remote (e.g. Internet) voting. The voter casts her vote at a kiosk installed and maintained by election aut...

Kiosk-based Internet voting refers to Internet voting conducted from a voting platform provided by public or private sponsor, somewhat like a bank ATM is provided by a bank, and in...

A key management infrastructure (KMI) business relationship that is established 1) to manage the set of user devices that are under the control of a specific KMI customer organizat...

A key management infrastructure (KMI) Communication Channel that provides 1) Information Integrity Service; 2) either Data Origin Authentication Service or Peer Entity Authenticati...

A user device that has a user identity for which the registration has significance across the entire key management infrastructure (KMI) (i.e., the identity's registration data is...