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Master key

As used in this Recommendation, a key that is used during the key-expansion step of a key-derivation procedure to derive the secret output keying material. This key-derivation key is obtained from a shared secret during the randomness-extraction step.


Source: NIST SP 800-56C Rev. 2 | Category: