A standard associated with the Clipper Chip and the idea of mandatory key escrow.
Glossary Terms
Privilege escalation
A situation where a user or attacker gains higher permissions than they should have.
Exploit
A concrete method, procedure, or code that abuses a vulnerability.
Export controls on cryptography
Rules that historically restricted the export of strong cryptography from a country.
FIPS 46
The standard that formally introduced DES in the United States.
FIPS
A family of U.S. federal technical standards, including some cryptographic standards.
FQDN
A fully qualified domain name including all parts of the domain.
Hardware wallet
A physical device designed to store cryptocurrencies and secret keys more safely.
Hardware security key
A small physical key for safer login, often using USB, NFC, or Bluetooth.
Password
In general, a password is an arbitrary string of characters including letters, digits, or other symbols. If the permissible characters are constrained to be numeric, the corresponding secret is sometimes called a personal identification number (PIN).