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Decryption key

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

A digital piece of information used to recover plaintext from the corresponding ciphertext by decryption

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Classifications

Entity Type

Credential92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Restricted85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Decryption keys
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Decryption key's
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Decryption keys'