cryptography terms
147 glossary entries tagged cryptography, listed alphabetically.
- "quantum computers will break all encryption"
- ACMEAutomatic Certificate Management Environment
- Adi Shamir
- AEADAuthenticated Encryption with Associated Data
- AESAdvanced Encryption Standard
- ALPACA
- ALPNApplication-Layer Protocol Negotiation
- BEAST
- block cipher
- Blockchain
- BREACH
- Bruce Schneier
- brute force
- C3DClient Certificate Constrained Delegation
- CAcertificate authority
- CAA record
- CBCCipher Block Chaining
- CCMCounter with CBC-MAC
- certificate
- Certificate authority (CA)
- Certificate Transparency (CT)
- chain analysis
- cipher suite
- Clifford Cocks
- CRIME
- CRLCertificate Revocation List
- Cross-device authentication (CDA)
- CSRCertificate Signing Request
- Daniel J. Bernstein
- DCVDomain Control Validation
- DERDistinguished Encoding Rules
- DHDiffie-Hellman
- differential privacy
- DigiNotar (2011)
- digital signature
- DNSKEYDNS Public Key (record)
- don't roll your own crypto
- DROWN
- DTLSDatagram Transport Layer Security
- DVD Jon (Jon Lech Johansen)
- ECDHElliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman
- ECDHEEphemeral Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman
- ECDSAElliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
- encryption is easy, key management is hard
- end-to-end encryptionend-to-end encryption (E2EE)
- entropy
- envelope encryption
- ephemeral key
- ES256ECDSA signature with SHA-256 (JWA identifier)
- FIPSFederal Information Processing Standards
- forward secrecyPerfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)
- FREAK
- FTPSFTP over TLS
- GCMGalois/Counter Mode
- GREASE
- handshake
- hash collision
- hash function
- Heartbleed
- HMACHash-based Message Authentication Code
- HOTPHMAC-based One-Time Password
- HQCHamming Quasi-Cyclic
- HS256HMAC with SHA-256 (JWA identifier)
- HSM
- illegal number
- IMAPSIMAP over TLS
- IVinitialization vector
- JA3JA3 TLS client fingerprint
- JA4JA4 TLS client fingerprint (JA4+ suite)
- James Ellis
- JWKJSON Web Key
- JWKSJSON Web Key Set
- JWSJSON Web Signature
- JWTJSON Web Token
- KDFkey derivation function
- Kerckhoffs's principle
- Key escrow
- key exchange
- key management
- key rotation
- KMS
- LDAPSLDAP over TLS
- Leonard Adleman
- Logjam
- Lucky Thirteen
- MAC (message authentication code)Message Authentication Code
- Martin Hellman
- MD5Message Digest 5
- Merkle tree
- mixer (tumbler)
- ML-KEMModule-Lattice Key Encapsulation Mechanism
- MQTTSMQTT over TLS
- Mt. Gox
- NISTNational Institute of Standards and Technology
- noncenumber used once
- OCSPOnline Certificate Status Protocol
- OTPone-time password
- Passkey
- PEMPrivacy-Enhanced Mail
- pepper
- PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
- Phil Zimmermann
- PKCEProof Key for Code Exchange
- PKIPublic Key Infrastructure
- POODLE
- post-quantum cryptographypost-quantum cryptography (PQC)
- PRFPseudorandom Function
- privacy-enhancing technologies
- PSSProbabilistic Signature Scheme
- public-key cryptographyasymmetric cryptography
- Raccoon
- rainbow table
- Ralph Merkle
- replay attack
- RNGrandom number generator
- ROBOT
- ROCA
- Ron Rivest
- RS256RSA signature with SHA-256 (JWA identifier)
- RSARivest-Shamir-Adleman
- RSA ConferenceRSA Conference - from cryptographers' gathering to the industry's biggest trade show
- salt
- SANSubject Alternative Name
- Schneier's law
- SEC1Standards for Efficient Cryptography 1
- SHASecure Hash Algorithm
- SIISubscriber Identity Information
- SIKESupersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation
- SLOTH
- SNIServer Name Indication
- stream cipher
- Sweet32
- Terrapin
- the Clipper chip
- the Crypto Wars
- the Cypherpunks
- the DAO hack
- the RSA SecurID breach (2011)
- the Silk Road
- TLSTransport Layer Security
- tokenization
- TOTPTime-based One-Time Password
- turtles all the way down
- Whitfield Diffie
- WireGuard
- WPA3
- WSSWebSocket Secure (WebSocket over TLS)