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RAND

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-003415

For the purposes of this Recommendation, a value in a set that has an equal probability of being selected from the total population of possibilities and, hence, is unpredictable. A random number is an instance of an unbiased random variable, that is, the output produced by a uniformly distributed random process.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-003415
FieldCybersecurity
ExpansionsRandom Parameter; Random Number
ReferencesNIST SP 800-90A Rev. 1; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-003415",
  "term": "RAND",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "For the purposes of this Recommendation, a value in a set that has an equal probability of being selected from the total population of possibilities and, hence, is unpredictable. A random number is an instance of an unbiased random variable, that is, the output produced by a uniformly distributed random process.",
  "expansions": [
    "Random Parameter",
    "Random Number"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-90A Rev. 1",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/rand/"
}

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