key escrow
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A controversial arrangement where the keys needed to decrypt encrypted data must be held in escrow by a third party so that government agencies can obtain them to decrypt messages which they suspect to be relevant to national security.
Last updated: 1999-12-14
Nearby terms:
Keyed-Hashing Message Authentication ♦ Keyed Sequenced Data Set ♦ key escrow ♦ key field ♦ key frame
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