see Discretionary Access Control
Dark Avenger s Mutation Engine. See MtE.
the pseudonym of a Bulgarian virus writer thought to be responsible for the Eddie family of viral programs (among others) and the polymorphic code known as the MtE
criminal or malicious hacker, cracker, or blackhat. The reference is from the Star Wars saga: the dark side of the Force is evil. The opposite of a dark-side hacker is a samurai, a specifically technical type of whitehat.
generally refers to an activity that makes small, random, or incremental changes to information, rather than complete erasure of files or purposeful changing of data. Use of this term is not recommended since the phrase is vague and there is little agreement on meaning.
symmetric block cipher, defined as part of the U.S. government s Data Encryption Standard. Generally speaking, in U.S. government systems, there will be an algorithm, which is the mathematical engine, and a standard, which is the fully working implementation.
cryptographic algorithm for the protection of unclassified data, published in United States Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 46. The DES, which was approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was intended for public and government use. A stronger version is provided by triple DES (or 3DES), which comes in a variety of forms. The grand old DES algorithm is no longer the officially...
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