decryption key

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key
noun[C]
uk
/kiː/us
/kiː/
a piece of metal that has been cut into a special shape and is used for opening or closing a lock, starting a car ...
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What is relevant to this legislation is adecryptionkey.
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These programs require adecryptionkey.
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The first criticism involves the punishment for failing to provide adecryptionkey.
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Encryption means the transformation of data into a form unreadable by anyone without adecryptionkey.
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Recall that, in case of asymmetric cryptography, thedecryptionkeyfor a ciphertext is the inverse of the key that was used to create the ciphertext.
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The malware author is the only party that knows the needed privatedecryptionkey.
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It additionally tries to protect a secretdecryptionkeyfrom the users of the system.
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But the burden is on the prosecution to prove beyond reasonable doubt that a person has, or has had, possession of adecryptionkey.
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The goal of this attack is to gradually reveal information about an encrypted message, or about thedecryptionkeyitself.
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Even if an encrypted email is intercepted and accessed, its contents are meaningless without thedecryptionkey.
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In such a cryptosystem, the encryption key is public and differs from thedecryptionkeywhich is kept secret.
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Her real name was considered important as the possibility exists that it may be thedecryptionkeyfor the code.
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However, only the receiving party has access to thedecryptionkeythat enables messages to be read.
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For nearly all cryptosystems, one of the most difficult challenges is key management - in part, how to securely store thedecryptionkey.
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This sequence is used as an encryption key at one end of communication, and as adecryptionkeyat the other.
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For example, suppose someone encrypted data on disk to prevent unauthorized access or undetected modifications and then lost thedecryptionkey: that would be a breach of utility.
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Since the publication of thedecryptionkeyto the first two volumes in 1606, they have been known to be actually concerned with cryptography and steganography.
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