Glossary of Terms

Vulnerability that has no known patch until now, which means that no protection exists

Algorithme de chiffrement symétrique le plus communément utilisé.
L'abréviation AES-128 et AES-256 fait référence à la taille des clés, respectivement de 128 et 256 bits.

European standard of evaluation methodology for physical random number generators (TRNGs)

Set of definitions and protocols that facilitate the creation and integration of application software (function name, description, input, output, etc.)

An integrated circuit (IC) chip customized for a particular use and user.

Asymmetric cryptography is a process that incorporates two encryption keys, a public key and a private key. The encryption key of the message is called public key (and can be communicated without any restriction), and the decryption key of the message is called private key. Asymmetric cryptography can also be used to authenticate messages

Functionality unknown to the legitimate user, which provides secret access to data or a change in functionality contained in software or hardware. The introduction of a backdoor in a software without the user's knowledge turns the software into a Trojan horse

An anomaly that occurs when software writing data to a buffer exceeds the buffer's capacity, causing adjacent memory locations to be overwritten. Buffer overflows can be exploited by attackers to modify a computer's memory in order to undermine or take control of a program's execution.