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encryption key

Definitions:

  A cryptographic key that is used with a PKE in order to encrypt plaintexts into ciphertexts. The encryption key can be made public.
Sources:
FIPS 203

  The cryptographic key used to encrypt a payload. In asymmetric cryptography, the encryption key refers to the public key of the cryptographic key pair. In symmetric cryptography, the encryption key is the symmetric key.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-63-4 [

  

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