Articles tagged: Cryptography
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- Glossary/Certificate_authority A certificate authority (CA) is an organization that signs digital certificates and their ...
- Glossary/Cipher In cryptography, a cipher is an algorithm that can encode cleartext to make it unreadable, and ...
- Glossary/Ciphertext In cryptography, a ciphertext is a scrambled message that conveys information but is not legible ...
- Glossary/Cipher_suite A cipher suite is a combination of a key exchange algorithm, authentication method, bulk ...
- Glossary/Cryptanalysis Cryptanalysis is the branch of cryptography that studies how to break codes and cryptosystems. ...
- Glossary/Cryptographic_hash_function A cryptographic hash function is a cryptographic primitive transforming a message of arbitrary ...
- Glossary/Cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology, is the science that studies how to encode and transmit messages ...
- Glossary/Decryption In cryptography, decryption is the conversion of ciphertext into cleartext.
- Glossary/Digest A digest is a small value generated by a hash function from a whole message. Ideally, a digest ...
- Glossary/Digital_certificate A digital certificate is a data file that binds a publicly known cryptographic key to an ...
- Glossary/Encryption In cryptography, encryption is the conversion of cleartext into a coded text or ciphertext. A ...
- Glossary/hash The hash function takes a variable length message input and produces a fixed-length hash output. ...
- Glossary/Key A key is a piece of information used by a cipher for encryption and/or decryption.
- Glossary/Placeholder_names Placeholder names are commonly used in cryptography to indicate the participants in a ...
- Glossary/Plaintext Plaintext refers to information that is being used as an input to an encryption algorithm, or to ...
- Glossary/Signature/Security A signature, or digital signature, is a protocol showing that a message is authentic.
- Glossary/TLS Transport Layer Security (TLS), previously known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), is a protocol ...
- Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsILoginManagerCrypto Decrypts the specified string, returning the plain text value.
- Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIUserCertPicker
- Web/API/Crypto/subtle The Crypto.subtle read-only property returns a SubtleCrypto object allowing to perform ...
- Web/API/RandomSource/getRandomValues The RandomSource.getRandomValues() method lets you get cryptographically random values. The ...
- Web/Security/Transport_Layer_Security Choosing the proper cipher suites and parameters in transport layer security (TLS) is essential ...
- Web/Security/Weak_Signature_Algorithm The strength of the hash algorithm used in signing a digital certificate is a critical element ...