Instalación
que genera y entrega claves criptográficas para su distribución (ISO-8732)
[Ribagorda:1997]
Ver Centro de
gestión de claves. [CESID:1997]
Equipo
utilizado en una red de cifra para generar y distribuir física o
electrónicamente claves a los equipos de la misma, pudiendo crear diversas
subredes a base de asignar distintas claves a diversos grupos de cifradores. [CESID:1997]
COMSEC facility generating
and distributing key in electronic form. [CNSSI_4009:2010]
1. (I) A type of key center
(used in symmetric cryptography) that implements a key-distribution protocol to
provide keys (usually, session keys) to two (or more) entities that wish to
communicate securely. (Compare: key translation center.) [RFC4949:2007]
(I) A centralized,
key-distribution process (used in symmetric cryptography), usually a separate
computer system, that uses master keys (i.e., KEKs) to encrypt and distribute
session keys needed by a community of users. [RFC4949:2007]