Key space


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The word key space (or keyspace) is used in

  • Key space (cryptography) for an algorithm refers to the set of all possible keys that can be used to initialize it
  • Keyspace (distributed data store), an object in NoSQL data stores that can be seen as a schema in RDBMS databases
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