List of telecommunications encryption terms
This is a list of telecommunications encryption terms. This list is derived in part from the Glossary of Telecommunication Terms published as Federal Standard 1037C.
- A5/1a stream cipher used to provide over-the-air communication privacy in the GSM cellular telephone standard.
- Bulk encryption
- Cellular Message Encryption Algorithma block cipher which was used for securing mobile phones in the United States.
- Cipher
- Cipher device
- Cipher system
- Cipher text
- Ciphony
- Civision
- Codress message
- COMSEC equipment
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptographic key
- CRYPTO
- Crypto phone
- Crypto-shredding
- Data Encryption Standard
- Decipher
- Decode
- Decrypt
- DECT Standard Cipher
- Descrambler
- Dncipher
- Encode
- Encoding law
- Encrypt
- End-to-end encryption
- group
- IMSI-catcheran eavesdropping device used for interception of cellular phones and usually is undetectable for users of mobile phones.
- Key distribution center
- Key management
- Key stream
- KSD-64
- Link encryption
- MISTY1
- Multiplex link encryption
- Net control station
- Null cipher
- One-time pad
- Over the Air Rekeying
- Plaintext
- PPPoX
- Protected distribution system
- Protection interval
- Pseudorandom number generator
- Public-key cryptography
- RED/BLACK concept
- RED signal
- Remote rekeying
- Security management
- Spoofing
- Squirtto load or transfer code key from an electronic key storage device. See Over the Air Rekeying.
- STU-IIIa family of secure telephones introduced in 1987 by the National Security Agency for use by the United States government, its contractors, and its allies.
- Superencryption
- Synchronous crypto-operation
- Transmission security key
- Trunk encryption device
- Types 1, 2, 3, and 4 encryption
- Unique key
- VoIP VPNcombines voice over IP and virtual private network technologies to offer a method for delivering secure voice.
- ZRTPa cryptographic key-agreement protocol used in Voice over Internet Protocol phone telephony.