- Industrie: Telecommunications
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Any cryptosystem that requires the use of a key to convert, unit by unit, plain text, encoded text, or signals into an unintelligible form for secure transmission. Note: The capability to decipher must be available at the receiving site.
Industry:Telecommunications
Any device that embodies cryptographic logic or performs one or more cryptographic functions (e.g., key generation, encryption, and authentication. )
Industry:Telecommunications
Any device used to modify any characteristic of an optical signal (lightwave) for the purpose of conveying information.
Industry:Telecommunications
Any electromagnetic disturbance that interrupts, obstructs, or otherwise degrades or limits the effective performance of electronics/electrical equipment. It can be induced intentionally, as in some forms of electronic warfare, or unintentionally, as a result of spurious emissions and responses, intermodulation products, and the like. 2. An engineering term used to designate interference in a piece of electronic equipment caused by another piece of electronic or other equipment. EMI sometimes refers to interference caused by nuclear explosion.
Industry:Telecommunications
Any emission, radiation, or induction interference that endangers the functioning or seriously degrades, obstructs, or repeatedly interrupts a communications system, such as a radio navigation service, telecommunications service, radio communications service, search and rescue service, or weather service, operating in accordance with approved standards, regulations, and procedures. Note: To be considered harmful interference, the interference must cause serious detrimental effects, such as circuit outages and message losses, as opposed to interference that is merely a nuisance or annoyance that can be overcome by appropriate measures. 2. Interference which endangers the functioning of a radionavigation service or of other safety services or seriously degrades, obstructs, or repeatedly interrupts a radiocommunication service operating in accordance with these Regulations.
Industry:Telecommunications
Any encryption process that (a) depends on only one encryption key, known only to message senders and receivers, and (b) is used to both encode and decode the message.
Industry:Telecommunications
Any entity that, in the ordinary course of its operations, makes telephones available to the public or to transient users of its premises, for interstate telephone calls using a provider of operator services.
Industry:Telecommunications
Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystems of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception, of data or information (i) by a Federal agency, or (ii) under a contract with a Federal agency which (i) requires the use of such equipment, or (ii) requires the performance of a service or the furnishing of a product which is performed or produced making significant use of such equipment. Such term includes (i) computer, (ii) ancillary equipment, (iii) software, firmware, and similar procedures, (iv) services, including support services, and (v) related resources as defined by regulations issued by the Administrator for General Services. . . .
Industry:Telecommunications
Any event that attempts to change the security state of the system, (e.g., change discretionary access controls, change the security level of the subject, change user password, etc. )Also, any event that attempts to violate the security policy of the system, (e.g., too many attempts to login, attempts to violate the mandatory access control limits of a device, attempts to downgrade a file, etc. )
Industry:Telecommunications
Any frequency in the band from 30 kHz to 300 kHz. See electromagnetic spectrum.
Industry:Telecommunications
