Cryptographic Token

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A portable, user-controlled physical device (e.g., smart card or PCMCIA card) used to store cryptographic information and possibly also perform cryptographic functions.

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Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

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

A token where the secret is a cryptographic key.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Credential90%rule-basedr:entity.credential.token.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Cryptographic Tokens
possessive: Cryptographic Token's
pluralpossessive: Cryptographic Tokens'

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