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Encryption key

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

A piece of information, in a digitized form, used by an encryption algorithm to convert the plaintext to the ciphertext

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A piece of information, in a digitized form, used by an encryption algorithm to convert the plaintext to the ciphertext