cryptographic token

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Definitions:

2. A token where the secret is a cryptographic key.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015

1. A portable, user-controlled, physical device (e.g., smart card or PC card) used to store cryptographic information and possibly also perform cryptographic functions.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015

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