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 cryptography, 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), reproducing the original cleartext. 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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- Ciphertext on Wikipedia
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- 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
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- CSRF
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- Digital certificate
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- Forbidden header name
- Forbidden response header name
- Hash
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- HPKP
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- HTTPS
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- MitM
- OWASP
- Preflight request
- Public-key cryptography
- Reporting directive
- Robots.txt
- Same-origin policy
- Session Hijacking
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- Symmetric-key cryptography
- TOFU
- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
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- Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Ciphertext
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