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Sensitive Information

Sensitive information, as defined by the federal government, is any unclassified information that, if compromised, could adversely affect the national interest or conduct of federal initiatives.

SHA

The SHA hash functions are five cryptographic hash functions designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and published by the NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard. SHA stands for Secure Hash Algorithm. Hash algorithms compute a fixed-length digital representation (known as a message digest) of an input data sequence (the message) of any length. The five algorithms are denoted SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. All but SHA-1 are sometimes collectively referred to as SHA-2. SHA-1 produces a message digest that is 160 bits long; the number in the SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 denotes the bit length of the digest they produce. SecuBox uses SHA-512 hash function for secret key generation.

Triple DES

A block cipher, based on DES, that transforms each 64-bit plaintext block by applying the Data Encryption Algorithm three successive times, using either two or three different keys, for an effective key length of 112 or 168 bits.

Trojan Horse 

Trojan horse is a program that installs malicious software while under the guise of doing something else.