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{{Short description|Algorithm used in cryptographic protocols}}
{{For|programs which generate software license keys|Keygen}}
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A '''key generator'''<ref name="urlGenerating Keys for Encryption and Decryption | Microsoft Docs">{{cite web |url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/security/generating-keys-for-encryption-and-decryption |title=Generating Keys for Encryption and Decryption | Microsoft Docs |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221199745 |title=Symmetric Key Cryptography Using Random Key Generator |date= |accessdate=2022-04-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://ijsrset.com/IJSRSET196550|title=Subject Review : Key Generation in Different Cryptography Algorithm |year=2019 |doi=10.32628/IJSRSET196550|last1=Abdalrdha |first1=Zainab Khyioon |last2=Al-Qinani |first2=Iman Hussein |last3=Abbas |first3=Farah Neamah |journal=International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology |pages=230–240 |s2cid=207976370 |doi-access=free }}</ref> is a protocol or algorithm that is used in many [[cryptography|cryptographic]] [[Protocol (computing)|protocol]]s to generate a sequence with many [[pseudo-random]] characteristics. This sequence is used as an [[encryption]] key at one end of communication, and as a decryption key at the other. One can implement a key generator in a system that aims to generate, distribute, and authenticate<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Bellare|first1=Mihir|last2=Rogaway|first2=Phillip|title=Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO' 93 |chapter=Entity Authentication and Key Distribution |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |date=August 1993|volume=773 |pages=232–249 |citeseerx=10.1.1.62.3423|doi=10.1007/3-540-48329-2_21|isbn=978-3-540-57766-9 |s2cid=5447745 }}</ref> keys in a way that without the private key, one cannot access the information in the public end.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fox|first=Pamela|title=Public key encryption|url=https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computers-and-internet/xcae6f4a7ff015e7d:online-data-security/xcae6f4a7ff015e7d:data-encryption-techniques/a/public-key-encryption|access-date=May 19, 2021|website=Khan Academy}}</ref>

Examples of key generators include [[linear-feedback shift register]]s (LFSR) and the [[Solitaire (cipher)|Solitaire]] (or Pontifex) cipher.

==References==
[[Category:Key management]]
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