Talk:Key (cryptography)

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 Definition:  Characteristics and generation of data which, in combination with a cryptographic algorithm, introduces or removes the concealment applied to plaintext or taken to ciphertext; key management is arelated but separate discipline of secure distribution of keys and entering them into cryptosystems [d] [e]
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I think we need something somewhere that discusses the general notion that systems which require something large, rather than just a small key, to be kept secret are a bad idea. This applies to one-time pads and to codes needing a codebook, and is one way to think about Kerckhoffs'_Principle; there may be applications I have not thought of.

Should that text go in Cryptography? Or here? Or where? Sandy Harris 03:57, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

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