shared secret

collocation in English

meaningsofsharedandsecret

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shared
adjective
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/ʃeəd/us
/ʃerd/
owned, divided, felt, or experienced by more than ...
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secret
noun
uk
/ˈsiː.krət/us
/ˈsiː.krət/
a piece of information that is only known by one person or a few people and should not be told ...
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(Definition ofsharedandsecretfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In contrast to symmetric cryptosystems, public key cryptography is a form of cryptography which generally allows users to communicate securely without having prior access to asharedsecretkey.
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The authentication can be performed using either pre-shared key (sharedsecret), signatures, or public key encryption.
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Passwords andsharedsecretkeys have the additional secrecy requirement.
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However, this presents a problem for challenge-response algorithms, which require both the client and the server to have asharedsecret.
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The problem with these mechanisms is the way to agree on thissharedsecret.
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Thesharedsecretarchitecture is potentially vulnerable in a number of areas.
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Sharedsecrettokens can be difficult to distribute, since each token is essentially a different piece of software.
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It also handles negotiating thesharedsecretkeys.
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To build a key fromsharedsecret, the key derivation function should be used.
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Several methods to create this initialsharedsecrethave been proposed, for example using a 3rd party or chaos theory.
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Thesharedsecretcan be a password, a passphrase, a big number or an array of randomly chosen bytes.
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For asharedsecret, an administrator will typically generate a configuration file for each end-user.
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The keys, in practice, represent asharedsecretbetween two or more parties that can be used to maintain a private information link.
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The number is derived from thesharedsecretby a cryptographic process which makes it infeasible to work out the secret from the sequence of numbers.
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They are a form ofsharedsecret.
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They are both afflicted and blessed, full of shared secrets, striving every moment.
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One device authenticates another by issuing a random challenge that is responded to by modifying it with the shared secrets and multiple hashings.
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