Glossary
- CBOR
Concise Binary Object Representation.
- CEK
Content Encryption Key - the key used to wrap_cek the COSE payload field.
- ciphertext
The encoded data, it’s not user readable. Potential attackers are able to see this.
- COSE
CBOR Object Signing and Encryption
- decryption
The process of converting ciphertext to plaintext.
- encryption
The process of converting plaintext to ciphertext.
- key
Secret data is encoded with a function using this key. Sometimes multiple keys are used. These must be kept secret, if a key is exposed to an attacker, any data encrypted with it will be exposed.
- plaintext
User-readable data you care about.