secure channel
Encrypted communication path
A secure channel is a communication pathway protected against eavesdropping or tampering.
In cryptography and computing, it refers to an encrypted connection where data travels safely between parties: The bank's website establishes a secure channel before you enter your password.
The term extends to any trusted means of private communication: They arranged to meet through secure channels.
- encryptedTransformed into cipher
- end to endJoined at terminals
- privateRestricted to certain parties
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
- VPNEncrypted network connection
SSL · TLS · secret handshake · handshake · cipher · public key · private key · protected · locked · transmission · firewall · password · authentication · man in the middle · scrambled · hidden · protocol · gateway
- confidentialconfidential, secret, private, classified, undisclosed
- Police Communicationradio dispatch, dispatch, 10-codes, police scanner, scanner
- COMSECencryption, cryptography, cipher, decryption, scrambler
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- securityalarm system, lock, safe, alarm, camera
- secret codescipher, secret code, secret codes, code word, password
secure channelopen channel
Uncovered water conveyance
public network · public forum · open line · party line · open communication
secure, channel, securely, security, insecure, insecurity, securities, secured, securing