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Decryption key

nounid 2259·updated May 9, 2026
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A digital piece of information used to recover plaintext from the corresponding ciphertext by decryption

MWE

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Classifications

Entity Type

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

Sensitivity

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

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Decryption keys
possessive
Decryption key's
pluralpossessive
Decryption keys'

Framework definitions

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary1 senseview framework →
§1
A digital piece of information used to recover plaintext from the corresponding ciphertext by decryption
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A digital piece of information used to recover plaintext from the corresponding ciphertext by decryption
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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