Could someone explain "DEK" for me?

[Janusz A. Urbanowicz]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:00:43PM +0800, Zuxy wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:08:03 +0900, Kazuya Matsumoto <venona at gmx.ch> wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:18:33 +0800
> > DEK stands for "Data Encryption Key" :-)
> > See pubkey-enc.c of version 1.3.91 at line 182.
> 
> Thanks! Or can I call it a session key?

No, 'session key' implies existence of a session of some kind. Just call it
'encryption key'. I did the same.

Alex
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