Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) White Paper

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Glossary of CDSA Terms and Acronyms

root of trust

The concept that a single authority may propagate trust by signing an

entity’s identity certiﬁcate.

salt

Random bytes that are usually mixed with other bytes to form a key or

password.

secure hash algorithms (SHA-1 and its predecessor SHA)

Algorithms speciﬁed in the Secure Hash Standard (SHS, FIBS PUB 180)

and developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology

(NIST).

seed

Random bytes used to help generate other random bytes.

session key

Typically, a symmetric cipher key spontaneously generated to bulk-encrypt

data.

signature

See digital signature.