password

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-003048",
  "term": "password",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. A string of characters (letters, numbers, and other symbols) used to authenticate an identity or to verify access authorization.\n\n2. A string of characters (letters, numbers and other symbols) that is used to authenticate an identity, to verify access authorization or to derive cryptographic keys.\n\n3. A string of characters (letters, numbers and other symbols) that are used to authenticate an identity, verify access authorization or derive cryptographic keys.\n\n4. A string of characters (letters, numbers, and other symbols) that are used to authenticate an identity or to verify access authorization. A passphrase is a special case of a password that is a sequence of words or other text. In this Recommendation, the use of the term “password” includes this special case.\n\n5. A type of authenticator consisting of a character string that is intended to be memorized or memorable by the subscriber to permit the claimant to demonstrate something they know as part of an authentication process. Passwords were referred to as memorized secrets in the initial release of SP 800-63B.\n\n6. Confidential authentication information, usually composed of a string of characters.\n\n7. A string of characters (letters, numbers and other symbols) that are used to authenticate an identity, to verify access authorization or to derive cryptographic keys.\n\n8. A string of characters (letters, numbers, and other symbols) that is used to authenticate an identity, to verify access authorization, or to derive cryptographic keys.",
  "synonyms": [
    "memorized secret"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-12 Rev. 1 from FIPS 140-2; NIST SP 800-82r3 from FIPS 140-2",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 2 Rev.1",
    "NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 5",
    "NIST SP 800-133 Rev. 2",
    "NIST SP 800-63-4",
    "NISTIR 5153",
    "NISTIR 7621 Rev. 1",
    "NIST IR 8459",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/password/"
}