Usually means: Secret code for decrypting data.
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  1. private key: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. private key: Wiktionary
  3. private key: Dictionary.com
  4. Private key: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. private key: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. private-key: Hacking Lexicon
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. private key: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (private key)

▸ noun:  The unpublished key in asymmetric cryptography.

Similar:
open secret, secret, pseudosecret, nonsecret, semisecrecy, nonprime, best-kept secret, private, unencryption, nonserial, more...

Opposite:
public key, shared key, open key

Phrases:
private key cryptography, private key encryption, more...

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Similar:
open secret, secret, pseudosecret, nonsecret, semisecrecy, nonprime, best-kept secret, private, unencryption, nonserial, more...

Opposite:
public key, shared key, open key

Phrases:
private key cryptography, private key encryption, more...



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