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Special Character
Special Character: Any non-alphanumeric character that can be rendered on a standard, American-English keyboard.
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Any non-alphanumeric character that can be rendered on a standard, American-English keyboard. Use of a specific special character may be application dependent. The list of 7- bit ASCII special characters follows: ` ~! @ # $ % ^ & * () _ + | } { “: ? > < [] \; ’,. / - =
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Any non-alphanumeric character that can be rendered on a standard American-English keyboard. Use of a specific special character may be application-dependent. The list of special characters follows: ` ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & () _ + | } { “: ? > < [] \; ’,. / - = (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)
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Committee on National Security Systems Glossary CNSSI 4009-2015
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The Cyber Glossary
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