| encryption |
a technique used to hide something from anyone who's not supposed to have access to it. |
| secret |
anything that none else than you should know. It could be any file or directory of files. |
| secret-file |
a LUKS encrypted filesystem embedded in a file where secrets are stored. |
| credentials |
a username and a password. |
| username |
a mnemonic string of text identifying an identity/person/account. |
| password |
a mnemonic string of text and used to encrypt/decrypt something. Can be used in combination with username. |
| key |
anything used to encrypt/decrypt something or to identify something or both. |
| passphrase |
a long mnemonic string of text and used to encrypt/decrypt something. Can be used in combination with a key. |
| key-file |
a unique file used to encrypt/decrypt a secret-file. Can be used in combination with a passphrase. |
| pass |
a password manager software. It stores credentials and secrets in GPG encrypted files. |
| pass-file |
a text file GPG encrypted containing (at least) relevant information related to credentials or passphrases. |
| spectre |
a password generator based on a single master password, (its ancestor is mpw) |
| coffin-file |
a secret-file which contains GPG-files for a specific identity. |
| tomb-file |
a secret-file which contains any kind of secret. |
| graveyard |
a directory where secret-file and tomb-file are laid. |
| GPG: key-pair |
as set made of a private and a public key mathematically linked one to another |
| GPG: key-flag |
a key-pair feature and means "this key-pair is used for this activity/activities" |
| GPG: primary key-pair |
the first key-pair generated when you are creating an new GPG identity |
| GPG: subkey-pair |
a key-pair depending on a primary key-pair |
| GPG: key-ring |
a collection of key-pairs (belonging to you) and public keys (belonging to others) |
| GPG: revoke certificate |
a special file, generated when at the primary key-pair creation time used to revoke the validity of the key-par |
| GPG: trust ring |
core concept of the web of trust. It's the set of signatures applied by others to your public signing key |