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Decryption key

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

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Entity Type

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

Sensitivity

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

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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Decryption keys
possessive
Decryption key's
pluralpossessive
Decryption keys'

Framework definitions

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary1 senseview framework →
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A digital piece of information used to recover plaintext from the corresponding ciphertext by decryption

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