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cryptography

Glossary

  • AES: Advanced Encryption Standard, a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by NIST in 2001. Supersedes DES. Symmetric key algorithm.
  • HMAC: hash-based message authentication code.
  • MAC: message authentication code.
  • nonce: an arbitrary number that can be used just once in a cryptographic communication.
  • SHA: Secure Hash Algorithms are a family of cryptographic hash functions published by NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).