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GlossaryGlossary- AES
Advanced Encryption Standard, a strong, well-regarded
encryption algorithm chosen by the United
States National Institute of
Standards and Technology - asset
the data being protected by encryption—either
a disk, partition, or a file - encryption
a mathematical means of scrambling data so that it's
unintelligible unless decrypted using a specific
key - key
the small piece of data necessary to make encrypted data
intelligible - keychain
the physical medium (such as a USB flash drive)
used to hold the encryption key
(and possibly the beginning of the boot process) - loopback device
a Linux block device which appears to store data (by using
another device) - loop-AES
software written by Jari Ruusu that implements the
AES algorithm using a loopback
device - plausible deniability
a means to avoid being coerced into decrypting one's own
data for an attacker - USB flash drive
a small electronic device containing a memory chip and a USB
interface
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