Terms starting with “P”

Relating to or occurring in the time before the day of an election.

The ability to prevent others from determining how an individual voted.

A property of a voting system that is designed and deployed to enable voters to obtain a ballot , and mark, verify, and cast it without revealing their ballot selections or selecti...

"All voting devices used in any election shall be provided with side curtains and front shield to insure that no person can see or know for whom any voter has voted or is voting."...

"Equipment, such as a booth or partition, provided in conjunction with a VOTE CAPTURE to make it difficult for anyone other than the voter to determine through visual DEVICE observ...

An analysis of how information is handled 1) to ensure handling conforms to applicable legal, regulatory, and policy requirements regarding privacy; 2) to determine the risks and e...

A simple device, usually of paper, used by the voter to hide her vote while taking her ballot from the voting booth to a tabulation machine. Also SECRECY ENVELOPE.

Commercial encryption system that affords telecommunications limited protection to deter a casual listener, but cannot withstand a technically competent cryptanalytic attack. (CNSS...

y - A cryptographic key, used with a public key cryptographic algorithm, that is uniquely associated with an entity and is not made public. In an asymmetric (public) cryptosystem,...

A cryptographic key that is used with an asymmetric (public key) cryptographic algorithm. For digital signatures, the private key is uniquely associated with the owner and is not m...

e - A right granted to an individual, a program, or a process. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

A right granted to an individual, a program, or a process.

The key management entity (KME) authorized to create the privilege certificate for another KME. Source: CNSSI No. 4005 (COMSEC)

An expansion of the privileges available to a role or group.

The definition and management of policies and processes that define the ways in which the user is provided access rights to enterprise systems. It governs the management of the dat...

An information system account with approved authorizations of a privileged user. Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 4 (adapted)

A human-initiated command executed on an information system involving the control, monitoring, or administration of the system including security functions and associated security-...

A computer process that is authorized (and, therefore, trusted) to perform security- relevant functions that ordinary processes are not authorized to perform.

A user that is authorized (and, therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform.

Pseudorandom Number Generator

A continuous process to manage and harden devices and networks according to known best practices. Source: DSOC 2011

See likelihood of occurrence. Source: NIST IR 7298 Rev 2

The chief election official in rural counties in the State of Georgia.

A technique that attempts to access a system to learn something about the system.