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User Key

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-004530

A key that is used for granting access to a user account via the SSH protocol (as opposed to a host key, which does not grant access to anything but serves to authenticate a host). Both authorized keys and identity keys are user keys. A user key is the equivalent of an access token.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-004530
FieldCybersecurity
ReferencesNISTIR 7966; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-004530",
  "term": "User Key",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "A key that is used for granting access to a user account via the SSH protocol (as opposed to a host key, which does not grant access to anything but serves to authenticate a host). Both authorized keys and identity keys are user keys. A user key is the equivalent of an access token.",
  "references": [
    "NISTIR 7966",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/user-key/"
}

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