ciphertext

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-000663",
  "term": "ciphertext",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. Data in its encrypted form.\n\n2. The encrypted form of the plaintext.\n\n3. With regard to KEMs, a bit string that is produced by the encapsulation algorithm and used as an input to the decapsulation algorithm.\n\n4. Encrypted (enciphered) data.\n\n5. Encrypted data.\n\n6. The output of the CCM encryption-generation process.\n\n7. The confidential form of the plaintext that is the output of the authenticated-encryption function.\n\n8. Data in its enciphered form.",
  "see_also": [
    "BLACK"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-175A; NIST SP 800-12 Rev. 1; NIST SP 800-133 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-133 Rev.1 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-152; NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 4 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-57 Part 2 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-57 Part 2 Rev.1; NIST SP 800-175B Rev. 1; NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 5; NIST SP 800-133 Rev. 2; NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 3 [Superseded]",
    "NIST IR 8459; NIST SP 800-38D",
    "NIST SP 800-227",
    "NIST SP 800-20; NIST SP 800-67 Rev. 2; NIST SP 800-67 Rev. 1 [Superseded]",
    "NIST SP 800-38A; NISTIR 7316",
    "NIST SP 800-38C",
    "NIST SP 800-38F",
    "NIST SP 800-56B Rev. 2; NIST SP 800-56B Rev. 1 [Superseded]",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/ciphertext/"
}