Collocations withkey

These are words often used in combination withkey.

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cryptographic key
Each message has to be encrypted using some cryptographic key that is known only to the intended receivers.
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decryption key
What is relevant to this legislation is a decryption key.
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duplicate key
I understand that he escaped by opening the window shutter with a duplicate key, sawing through the window bars, and climbing 30 yards along a high coping.
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Hansard archive
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encryption key
The password allows the individual to access the information, but the encryption key is never seen.
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minor key
The protagonist's melancholy can be understood here not by simply equating the minor key with sadness.
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telegraph key
For example, it is said that one keys the transmitter by interrupting some stage of amplification with a telegraph key.
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