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symmetric cryptography

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A branch of cryptography in which a cryptographic system or algorithms use the same secret key (a shared secret key).

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

plural
symmetric cryptographies
possessive
symmetric cryptography's
pluralpossessive
symmetric cryptographies'