Approved

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Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)-approved or National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-recommended. An algorithm or technique that is either 1) specified in a FIPS or NIST Recommendation, or 2) adopted in a FIPS or NIST Recommendation.

polysemousNISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

2 more senses beyond the canonical

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 2 pending review

FIPS-approved and/or NIST-recommended.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 3 pending review

FIPS-approved and/or NIST-recommended. An algorithm or technique that is either 1) specified in a FIPS or NIST Recommendation, 2) adopted in a FIPS or NIST Recommendation, or 3) specified in a list of NIST-approved security functions.

Classifications

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Entity Type

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Approveds
possessive: Approved's
pluralpossessive: Approveds'

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