Shared_secret
Contains Arabic or Urdu scriptContains Hiragana or Katakana script
SHA-2565fd166c2271dc4fda3da58b7e84152ac6d574ed18925c96d8bca752997ba6702
MaleculeH(Cr)Md
Evidence
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363 <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83" title="سر مشترك – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="سر مشترك" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_compartit" title="Secret compartit – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Secret compartit" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sd%C3%ADlen%C3%BD_tajn%C3%BD_kl%C3%AD%C4%8D" title="Sdílený tajný klíč – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sdílený tajný klíč" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" cl
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585</div><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr" data-mw-parsoid-version="0.24.0.0-alpha14" data-mw-html-version="2.8.0"><section data-mw-section-id="0" id="mwAQ"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt1" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwAg" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"Short description","href":"./Template:Short_description"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Computer password or cryptographic key"}},"i":0}}]}'>Computer password or cryptographic key</div><span class="mw-empty-elt" about="#mwt1"><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Articles_with_short_description"/><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Short_description_is_different_from_Wikidata"/></span>
586<span class="mw-empty-elt" about="#mwt2" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwAw" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"for","href":"./Template:For"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"methods where a secret is divided into several parts"},"2":{"wt":"secret sharing"}},"i":0}}]}'><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1353705441" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles" about="#mwt3" data-mw='{"name":"templatestyles","attrs":{"src":"Module:Hatnote/styles.css"},"body":{"extsrc":""}}'>.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+span.mw-empty-elt+.hatnote,.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style></span><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" about="#mwt2" id="mwBA">For methods where a secret is divided into several parts, see <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikipe
587<span class="mw-empty-elt" about="#mwt4" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwBQ" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"redirect","href":"./Template:Redirect"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Shared secrets"},"2":{"wt":"the album by George Cables"},"3":{"wt":"Shared Secrets (album)"}},"i":0}}]}'><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1353705441" about="#mwt5" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles" data-mw='{"name":"templatestyles","attrs":{"src":"Module:Hatnote/styles.css"},"body":{"extsrc":""}}'/></span><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" about="#mwt4" id="mwBg">"Shared secrets" redirects here. For the album by George Cables, see <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Secrets_(album)" title="Shared Secrets (album)" class="mw-redirect">Shared Secrets (album)</a>.</div>
593<p id="mwGA">The shared secret can be used for authentication (for instance when logging in to a remote system) using methods such as <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge–response_authentication" title="Challenge–response authentication" id="mwGQ">challenge–response</a> or it can be fed to a <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_derivation_function" title="Key derivation function" id="mwGg">key derivation function</a> to produce one or more <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(cryptography)" title="Key (cryptography)" id="mwGw">keys</a> to use for encryption and/or <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_authentication_code" title="Message authentication code" id="mwHA">MACing</a> of messages.</p>