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>Glossary</TITLE
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NAME="Glossary"
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>Glossary</H1
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><DT
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><B
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><SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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><A
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HREF="http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/"
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>AES</A
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><DD
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><P
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>Advanced Encryption Standard, a strong, well-regarded
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<I
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>encryption</I
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> algorithm chosen by the United
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States <A
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>National Institute of
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Standards and Technology</A
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>asset</B
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>the data being protected by <I
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>encryption</I
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>—either
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a disk, partition, or a file</P
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><DT
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><B
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>encryption</B
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><DD
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>a mathematical means of scrambling data so that it's
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unintelligible unless decrypted using a specific
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>key</I
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>key</B
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><DD
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>the small piece of data necessary to make encrypted data
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intelligible</P
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>the physical medium (such as a <I
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>USB flash drive)
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</I
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>used to hold the encryption <I
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>key</I
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(and possibly the beginning of the boot process)</P
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>loopback device</B
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>a Linux block device which appears to store data (by using
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another device)</P
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>loop-AES</A
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>software written by Jari Ruusu that implements the
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<I
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CLASS="glossterm"
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>AES</I
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> algorithm using a <I
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CLASS="glossterm"
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>loopback
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device</I
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>plausible deniability</B
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>a means to avoid being coerced into decrypting one's own
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data for an attacker</P
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>USB flash drive</B
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><DD
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>a small electronic device containing a memory chip and a USB
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interface</P
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