Vocabulary
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A
- AA
- Access Authorization
- Asymmetric Cryptography
- Cryptography in which two keys are used: the other one encrypts
and the other one decrypts. What's more is that it is also vice
versa. Moreover, something that has veen encrypted with one of the
keys can be decrypted only with the other one.
D
- DEK
- Data Encryption Key. A single (symmetric) key used to encrypt the
document. This key is then encrypted using Public Key Cryptography.
H
- HTTP
- HyperText Transfer Protocol.
P
- PEM
- Privacy Enhanced Mail.
- Private Key
- The secret component of the two keys used in public key encryption.
- Public Key
- The public component of the two keys used in public key encryption.
- Public Key Cryptography
- See Asymmetric Cryptography.
S
- Secret Key
- The single key used in symmetric
cryptography.
- Symmetric Cryptography
- Encryption and decryption done by the same (secret) key.
U
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator.
AL 12 December 1993