{"json_modified": "2016-03-28T08:42:26.690809", "uuid": "99659d6e-30a3-4dca-9500-ce133cbae6ae", "title": "Key", "url": "/en-US/docs/Glossary/Key", "tags": ["Security", "Glossary", "Cryptography"], "translations": [], "modified": "2015-10-13T08:58:30", "label": "Key", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 134011, "last_edit": "2015-10-13T08:58:29", "summary": "A key is a piece of information used by a <a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"/en-US/docs/Glossary/cipher\" title=\"cipher: In cryptography, a cipher is an algorithm that can&#xA0;encode cleartext&#xA0;to make it unreadable, and to decode it back.\">cipher</a> for <a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"/en-US/docs/Glossary/encryption\" title=\"encryption: In cryptography, encryption is the conversion of cleartext&#xA0;into a coded text or&#xA0;ciphertext. A ciphertext is intended to be unreadable by unauthorized readers.\">encryption</a> and/or <a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"/en-US/docs/Glossary/decryption\" title=\"decryption: In cryptography, decryption is the conversion of ciphertext into cleartext.\">decryption</a>.", "sections": [{"id": "Learn_more", "title": "Learn more"}], "slug": "Glossary/Key", "review_tags": []}