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Trap Door
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Cybersecurity
Definition
1. A means of reading cryptographically protected information by the use of private knowledge of weaknesses in the cryptographic algorithm used to protect the data. 2. In cryptography, one-to-one function that is easy to compute in one direction, yet believed to be difficult to invert without special information. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)
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