Glossary
KB
Kilo Bytes. Represents 1024 bytes.
Kc
Cryptographic Key.
Key Escrow:
The system of giving a piece of a key to each of a certain number of trustees such that the key can be recovered with the collaboration of all the trustees.
Key Management
The process by which cryptographic keys and messages are managed and protected
Key:
A symbol or sequence of symbols (or electrical or mechanical correlates of symbols) applied to text in order to encrypt or decrypt.
Keystroke Monitoring:
A specialized form of audit trail software, or a specially designed device, that records every key struck by a user and every character of the response that the AIS returns to the user.
Ki
Subscriber Authentication Key.
KLOC
One thousand lines of code.
KTF
Korea Telecom Freetel
KTU
Key Transformation Unit. A part of ALU, which contains decryption information when the ALU is encrypted.
KVM
K Virtual Machine. A Java VM (Virtual Machine) suited for mobile devices. As its name suggests, the VM is measured in tens of KB. See also Virtual Machine, J2ME.