Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) White Paper
Glossary of CDSA Terms and Acronyms
root of trust
The concept that a single authority may propagate trust by signing an entity’s identity certificate.
salt
Random bytes that are usually mixed with other bytes to form a key or password.
secure hash algorithms
Algorithms specified in the Secure Hash Standard (SHS, FIBS PUB 180) and developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
seed
Random bytes used to help generate other random bytes.
session key
Typically, a symmetric cipher key spontaneously generated to
signature
See digital signature.
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