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trap door

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-004405

1. A means of reading cryptographically protected information by the use of private knowledge of weaknesses in the cryptographic algorithm used to protect the data.

2. One-to-one function that is easy to compute in one direction, yet believed to be difficult to invert without special information.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-004405
FieldCybersecurity
ReferencesCNSSI 4009-2022; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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