A function key is a key on a computer or terminal keyboard that can be programmed to cause the operating system or an application program to perform certain...
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cryptography, a key derivation function (KDF) is a cryptographic algorithm that derives one or more secret keys from a secret value such as a master key, a password...
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Look up function or functionality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Function or functionality may refer to: Function key, a type of key on computer...
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derivation function Key distribution center Key escrow Key exchange Key generation Key management Key schedule Key server Key signature (cryptography) Key signing...
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LOCK is a function that locks part of a keyboard's keys into a distinct mode of operation, depending on the lock settings selected. Most keyboards have...
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spaces of large or variable-length keys. Use of hash functions relies on statistical properties of key and function interaction: worst-case behavior is...
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of the functions for each round can greatly reduce the chances of a successful attack.[citation needed] It is also possible to increase the key length...
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HMAC (redirect from Keyed-Hashing Message Authentication)
authentication code (MAC) involving a cryptographic hash function and a secret cryptographic key. As with any MAC, it may be used to simultaneously verify...
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Ctrl+C). Similarly to the Shift key, the Control key rarely performs any function when pressed by itself. The Control key is located on or near the bottom...
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a key derivation function NANO, a cryptocurrency, uses BLAKE2b in the proof of work, for hashing digital signatures and as a key derivation function Polkadot...
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the key changes each block; and related-key attacks make it potentially less secure for use in a hash function than for encryption. A hash function must...
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The Fn key, short form for function, is a modifier key on many keyboards, especially external keyboards, and is not available for mobile devices. For...
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right of the Backspace key. [clarification needed] Many laptops add rows of smaller keys above the Function key line to add keys on a non-standard size...
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identical to the encryption itself, except the AddRoundKey function is replaced by an AddRoundConstant function that adds a predetermined constant in each round...
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ISO/IEC 9995 (section Function keys)
marked as "1" on several layouts is identified as “Key E01”. The labeling rules do allow for function keys to be arranged in a position other than above the...
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Message authentication code (redirect from Keyed hash function)
authentication. The simplest such pairwise independent hash function is defined by the random key, key = (a, b), and the MAC tag for a message m is computed...
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Rainbow table (redirect from Reduction function)
common defense against this attack is to compute the hashes using a key derivation function that adds a "salt" to each password before hashing it, with different...
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Computer keyboard (section Enter key or Return key)
Laptops and wireless peripherals often lack duplicate keys and ones seldom used. Function- and arrow keys are nearly always present. Another factor determining...
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break function is usually combined with the pause function on one key since the introduction of the IBM Model M 101-key keyboard in 1985, the Break key is...
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RSA cryptosystem (redirect from RSA public key cryptography)
shared-secret-key created from exponentiation of some number, modulo a prime number. However, they left open the problem of realizing a one-way function, possibly...
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Alt is the modifier key. In contrast, pressing just ⇧ Shift or Alt will probably do nothing unless assigned a specific function in a particular program...
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functions are a special case of one-way functions and are widely used in public-key cryptography. In mathematical terms, if f is a trapdoor function,...
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A soft key is a button flexibly programmable to invoke any of a number of functions rather than being associated with a single fixed function or a fixed...
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Cryptography (section Cryptographic hash functions)
are not limited to: cryptographic keys, cryptographic hash function, asymmetric (public key) encryption, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), End-to-End...
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PBKDF2 (category Key derivation functions)
cryptography, PBKDF1 and PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 1 and 2) are key derivation functions with a sliding computational cost, used to reduce...
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15 December 2018 – via GitHub. "Ruby C extension for the AES-CMAC keyed hash function (RFC 4493): louismullie/cmac-rb". 4 May 2016 – via GitHub. RFC 4493...
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Diffie–Hellman (DH) key exchange is a mathematical method of securely generating a symmetric cryptographic key over a public channel and was one of the...
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Yescrypt (category Key derivation functions)
cryptographic key derivation function function used for password hashing on Fedora Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux. The function is more resistant...
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The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm is a cryptographic hash function developed by Ronald Rivest in 1989. The algorithm is optimized for 8-bit computers. MD2...
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In cryptography, Tiger is a cryptographic hash function designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham in 1995 for efficiency on 64-bit platforms. The size of...
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