Get the LinuxSecurity news you want faster with RSS
Powered By
Security Dictionary
Can't tell 'smtp' from 'snmp'? Find the precise meaning of these and hundreds of other security-related terms in our convenient and up-to-date Security Dictionary.
break
(I) Cryptographic usage: To successfully perform cryptanalysis and
thus succeed in decrypting data or performing some other
cryptographic function, without initially having knowledge of the
key that the function requires. (This term applies to encrypted
data or, more generally, to a cryptographic algorithm or
cryptographic system.)
