What is a traffic encryption key?

What are traffic keys?

Definition(s): Key used to encrypt plain text or to superencrypt previously encrypted text and/or to decrypt cipher text.

What does an encryption key do?

In cryptography, an encryption key is a variable value that is applied using an algorithm to a string or block of unencrypted text to produce encrypted text or to decrypt encrypted text. The length of the key is a factor in considering how difficult it will be to decrypt the text in a given message.

What is a TrKEK key?

TrKEK show sources. CNSSI 4009-2015. Definition(s): A key used to move key from a Key Processor to a data transfer device (DTD)/secure DTD2000 system (SDS)/simple key loader (SKL).

What is DEK and KEK?

Data encryption key (DEK): is an encryption key whose function it is to encrypt and decrypt the data. Key encryption key (KEK): is an encryption key whose function it is to encrypt and decrypt the DEK.