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Glossary of Security Terms: Ciphertext by@mozilla
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Glossary of Security Terms: Ciphertext
by Mozilla ContributorsAugust 18th, 2020
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Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. A ciphertext is a scrambled message that conveys information but is not legible unless decrypted with the right cipher and the right secret (usually a key) The security of a ciphertext's security depends on using a secure cipher and keeping the key secret. Mozilla is the world's largest free software company, Mozilla, with a free and open source version of Mozilla Firefox.Company Mentioned
In , a ciphertext is a scrambled message that conveys information but is not legible unless with the right and the right secret (usually a ), reproducing the original . A ciphertext's security, and therefore the secrecy of the contained information, depends on using a secure cipher and keeping the key secret.
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- Block cipher mode of operation
- Certificate authority
- Challenge-response authentication
- Cipher
- Cipher suite
- CORS
- CORS-safelisted request header
- CORS-safelisted response header
- Cross-site scripting
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptographic hash function
- Cryptography
- CSP
- CSRF
- Decryption
- Digital certificate
- DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security)
- Encryption
- Forbidden header name
- Forbidden response header name
- Hash
- HMAC
- HPKP
- HSTS
- HTTPS
- Key
- MitM
- OWASP
- Preflight request
- Public-key cryptography
- Reporting directive
- Robots.txt
- Same-origin policy
- Session Hijacking
- SQL Injection
- Symmetric-key cryptography
- TOFU
- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
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