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Cryptographic material used in the performance of a cryptographic protocol, such as an authentication or a signing protocol. The reference data length is the maximum length of a password or PIN. For algorithms, the reference data length is the length of a key.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-73pt2-5
NIST SP 800-73pt3-5

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