Glossary Cybersecurity Terms
Kk
Key:
The numerical value used to control cryptographic operations, such as decryption, encryption, signature generation, or signature verification.
Key pair:
A public key and its corresponding private key. Two mathematically related keys having the property that one key can be used to encrypt a message that can only be decrypted using the other key.
Keylogger:
Software or hardware that tracks keystrokes and keyboard events, usually surreptitiously / secretly, to monitor actions by the user of an information system.