cryptographic key management activity
This is a compositional phrase, not a standalone term of art. NIST's authoritative glossary defines *key management* itself as "the activities involving the handling of cryptographic keys and other related security parameters during the entire life cycle of the keys, including their generation, storage, establishment, entry and output, and destruction." "Cryptographic key management activity" simply names one instance or category of those activities—it is a noun-phrase built from the established terms "cryptographic key" and "key management," and carries no additional specialized meaning beyond what those component terms already convey. The broader field uses "key management" to cover the full lifecycle of keys in a cryptosystem, encompassing generation, exchange, storage, use, destruction, replacement, protocol design, key servers, and user procedures.
Framework senses
- §1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · web_lookup_draft
- This is a compositional phrase, not a standalone term of art. NIST's authoritative glossary defines *key management* itself as "the activities involving the handling of cryptographic keys and other related security parameters during the entire life cycle of the keys, including their generation, storage, establishment, entry and output, and destruction." "Cryptographic key management activity" simply names one instance or category of those activities—it is a noun-phrase built from the established terms "cryptographic key" and "key management," and carries no additional specialized meaning beyond what those component terms already convey. The broader field uses "key management" to cover the full lifecycle of keys in a cryptosystem, encompassing generation, exchange, storage, use, destruction, replacement, protocol design, key servers, and user procedures.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column