KMS (Key Management System)
Hardware or cloud service for generating, storing, and using keys with strong access controls.
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Archives: Glossary
Archives: Glossary
Key Rotation
Practice of replacing cryptographic keys periodically to limit blast radius of compromise.
Key Pair
Cryptographic public and private keys used for signing and address derivation.
KDF (Key Derivation Function)
Function like PBKDF2, scrypt, or Argon2 used to derive keys from passwords or seeds securely.
KZG Ceremony (Powers of Tau)
Collaborative trusted setup that generates structured reference strings for KZG commitments.
KZG Polynomial Commitment
Commitment scheme (Kate‑Zaverucha‑Goldberg) enabling succinct proofs of polynomial evaluations; used for data availability and blobs.
Kademlia DHT
Distributed hash table used in P2P networks for efficient node and content discovery.
Keccak‑256
Hash function used by Ethereum for addresses and ABI encoding; close to SHA‑3 but not identical.
Lazy Minting (NFT)
Minting deferred until purchase; creator signs a voucher, buyer pays gas at claim.
LSM Tree (Log‑Structured Merge Tree)
Write‑optimized storage structure used by RocksDB, LevelDB; common in node databases.
Log Bloom
Bloom filter in block headers summarizing events and addresses for fast log queries.
