Elementary Information Security, 3rd Edition

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Important Terms Introduced

• active token

• authentication database

• authentication factors

• average attack space

• base secret

• challenge-response token

• character set

• credential

• cryptographic building block

• cryptographic function

• cryptographic randomness

• diceware

• dictionary attack

• digest authentication

• entropy

• extreme threat

• hash value

• keystroke logger

• low-hanging fruit

• lower bound

• nonce

• offline attack

• one-time password token

• one-way hash

• passive token

• passphrase

• password cracking

• password manager

• procedure diagram

• process diagram

• random

• search space

• shoulder surfing

• smart card

• sniff

• social engineering

• strong threat

• three-factor authentication

• two-factor authentication

• upper bound

• weak threat

• work factor

Abbreviations Introduced ...