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Object Identifier

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A specialized formatted number that is registered with an internationally recognized standards organization. The unique alphanumeric/numeric identifier registered under the ISO registration standard to reference a specific object or object class. In the federal government PKI, they are used to uniquely identify each of the four policies and cryptographic algorithms supported.

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

Classifications

Entity Type

Artifact0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

Regulated72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

Cui65%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

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