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Working State

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-004645

A subset of the internal state that is used by a DRBG mechanism to produce pseudorandom bits at a given point in time. The working state (and thus, the internal state) is updated to the next state prior to producing another string of pseudorandom bits.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-004645
FieldCybersecurity
ReferencesNIST SP 800-90A Rev. 1; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-004645",
  "term": "Working State",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "A subset of the internal state that is used by a DRBG mechanism to produce pseudorandom bits at a given point in time. The working state (and thus, the internal state) is updated to the next state prior to producing another string of pseudorandom bits.",
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-90A Rev. 1",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/working-state/"
}

Record 4,645 of 4,693 in Cybersecurity terminology (MLC-0102). Request the full dataset.