Controlled Cryptographic Item

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Secure telecommunications or information system, or associated cryptographic component, that is unclassified and handled through the COMSEC Material Control System (CMCS), an equivalent material control system, or a combination of the two that provides accountability and visibility. Such items are marked “Controlled Cryptographic Item,” or, where space is limited, “CCI”.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Asset100%manual reviewI-071.physical_split

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Physical became Facility; its devices went to Asset (Dorian, 2026-10-06; cki DESIGN.md I-071)

Sensitivity

Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

Cui80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: CCI
plural: Controlled Cryptographic Items
possessive: Controlled Cryptographic Item's
pluralpossessive: Controlled Cryptographic Items'

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