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Cryptographic Component

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Hardware or firmware embodiment of the cryptographic logic. A cryptographic component may be a modular assembly, a printed wiring assembly, a microcircuit, or a combination of these items.

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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

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

Cui78%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Cryptographic Components
possessive: Cryptographic Component's
pluralpossessive: Cryptographic Components'

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