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Escrowed Encryption Standard
04 Jul 2002
WORD - The Escrowed Encryption Standard (EES) is a standard for encrypted communications that was approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1994 and is better known by the name of an implementation called the Clipper chip. The ...
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Quiz: Cryptography
31 Jan 2002
WORD - "OK, boys and girls! Do you have your secret decoder handy? Here's this week's special message." (Radio message to subscribed members of the Lone Ranger Club, circa 1943.)
How to take the quiz:
- After reading the ...
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network encryption
27 Feb 2001
WORD - Network encryption (sometimes called network layer, or network level encryption) is a network security process that applies crypto services at the network transfer layer - above the data link level, but below the application ...
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data key
06 Apr 2001
WORD - In cryptography, a data key is a key (a variable value that is applied to a string or block of text to encrypt or decrypt it) that is used to encrypt or decrypt data only and is not used to encrypt or decrypt other keys, as ...
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Rijndael
21 Apr 2003
WORD - Rijndael (pronounced rain-dahl) is the algorithm that has been selected by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It was selected from a ...
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output feedback
01 Sep 2001
WORD - In cryptography, output feedback (OFB) is a mode of operation for a block cipher. It has some similarities to the ciphertext feedback mode in that it permits encryption of differing block sizes, but has the key difference ...
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Advanced Encryption Standard
10 Apr 2003
WORD - Also see cryptography.The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an encryption algorithm for securing sensitive but unclassified material by U.S. Government agencies and, as a likely consequence, may eventually become the de ...
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Encrypting File System
31 Jul 2001
WORD - The Encrypting File System (EFS) is a feature of the Windows 2000 operating system that lets any file or folder be stored in encrypted form and decrypted only by an individual user and an authorized recovery agent. EFS is ...
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quantum cryptography
30 Dec 2002
WORD - Quantum cryptography uses our current knowledge of
physics to develop a cryptosystem that is not able to be
defeated - that is, one that is completely secure against being compromised
without knowledge of the sender or the ...
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International Data Encryption Algorithm
25 Jul 2000
WORD - IDEA (International Data Encryption Algorithm) is an encryption algorithm developed at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. It uses a block cipher with a 128-bit key, and is generally considered to be very secure. It is considered ...
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