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Key Management Infrastructure

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All parts – computer hardware, firmware, software, and other equipment and its documentation; facilities that house the equipment and related functions; and companion standards, policies, procedures, and doctrine that form the system that manages and supports the ordering and delivery of cryptographic material and related information products and services to users.

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

Senses

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

Entity Type

System85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Regulated88%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

Cui72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

acronym
KMI
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Key Management Infrastructure's