EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Carol Julian
Organization : | KSU
Post Date : | 9/14/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Cryptographic Key
Definition : |
Comment : | Current: Value used to control cryptographic operations, such as decryption, ncryption, signature generation or signature verification. Change: A value used to control cryptographic operations,such as decryption,encryption, signature generation or signature verification. For the purposes of this document, keys must provide at least 80-bits of protection. This means that it must be as hard to find an unknown key or decrypt a message, given the formation exposed to an eavesdropper by an authentication, as to guess an 80-bit random number. Nature of change: Defined per source: NIST SP 800-63 http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-63/SP800-63v6_3_3.pdf