RSA Security 5.2.2 manual Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Secure Wide Area Network, See secret key

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secret sharing

Splitting a secret (for examle, a private key) into many pieces such that any specified subset of k pieces may be combined to form the secret, but k-1 pieces are not enough.

seed

A typically random bit sequence used to generate another, usually longer pseudo-random bit sequence.

session key

A key for symmetric-key cryptosystems which is used for the duration of one message or communication session.

SET

Secure Electronic Transaction. MasterCard and Visa developed (with some help from industry) this standard jointly to insure secure electronic transactions.

shared key

The secret key two (or more) users share in a symmetric-key cryptosystem.

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

smart card

A card, not much bigger than a credit card, that contains a computer chip and is used to store or process information.

stream cipher

Asecret-key encryption algorithm that processes data in a stream of arbitary length one a bit at a time.

stream cipher based MAC

MAC that uses linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs) to reduce the size of the data it processes.

strong prime

A prime number with certain properties chosen to defend against specific factoring techniques.

S/WAN

Secure Wide Area Network.

symmetric cipher

An encryption algorithm that uses the same key is used for encryption as decryption.

symmetric key

See secret key.

synchronous

A property of a stream cipher, stating that the keystream is generated independently of the plaintext and ciphertext.

tamper resistant

In cryptographic terms, this usually refers to a hardware device that is either impossible or extremely difficult to reverse engineer or extract information from.

TCSEC

Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria.

timestamp

See digital timestamp.

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