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Email Encryption (SMIME & PGP)
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data encryption/decryption IC
14 Nov 2005
WORD - A data encryption/decryption IC is a specialized integrated circuit (IC) that can encrypt outgoing data and decrypt incoming data. Some such devices are intended for half-duplex operation (in which input and output do not ...
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session key
31 May 2004
WORD - A session key is an encryption and decryption key that is randomly generated to ensure the security of a communications session between a user and another computer or between two computers. Session keys are sometimes called ...
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cryptographic checksum
23 Dec 2002
WORD - A cryptographic checksum is a mathematical value (called a checksum) that is assigned to a file and used to "test" the file at a later date to verify that the data contained in the file has not been maliciously changed. A ...
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MPPE
31 Oct 2002
WORD - MPPE (Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption) is a method of encrypting data transferred across Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)-based dial-up connections or
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) virtual private network (VPN) ...
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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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asymmetric cryptography
08 Jul 2002
WORD - Asymmetric cryptography is cryptography in which a pair of keys is used to encrypt and decrypt a message so that it arrives securely. Initially, a network user requests a public and private key pair. A user who wants to send ...
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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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elliptical curve cryptography
06 Dec 2001
WORD - Elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) is a public key encryption technique based on elliptic curve theory that can be used to create faster, smaller, and more efficient cryptographic keys. ECC generates keys through the ...
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Twofish
26 Aug 2001
WORD - Twofish is an encryption algorithm based on an earlier algorithm, Blowfish, and was a finalist for a NIST Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm to replace the DES algorithm. (NIST eventually selected the Rijndael ...
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deniable encryption
24 May 2001
WORD - Deniable encryption is a type of cryptography that allows an encrypted text to be decrypted in two or more ways, depending on which
decryption key is used. The use of two or more keys allows the sender, theoretically, to ...
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