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  • cryptosecurity: The component of communications security that results from the provision of technically sound Cryptosystems and their proper use. This includes insuring message confidentiality and authenticity.

  • ''' of value which might be derived from Intercept and analysis of compromising emanations from crypto-equipment, automated information systems ( Computer s), and telecommunications systems.

  • physical security: The component of Communications security that results from all physical measures necessary to safeguard Classified equipment, material, and documents from Access thereto or observation thereof by unauthorized persons.

  • Traffic-flow Security : Measures that conceal the presence and properties of valid messages on a network. It includes the protection resulting from features, inherent in some cryptoequipment, that conceal the presence of valid messages on a communications circuit, normally achieved by causing the circuit to appear busy at all times.

  • ''' (e.g. Frequency Hopping and Spread Spectrum ).



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From Federal Standard 1037C , MIL-STD-188 , National Information Systems Security Glossary and the Department Of Defense Dictionary Of Military And Associated Terms


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