Data Integrity

A property whereby data has not been altered in an unauthorized manner since it was created, transmitted or stored. In this Recommendation, the statement that a cryptographic algorithm “provides data integrity” means that the algorithm is used to detect unauthorized alterations. 

See NIST SP 800-56B Rev. 1 under Data integrity for more information.


A property whereby data has not been altered in an unauthorized manner since it was created, transmitted, or stored. 
See  NIST SP 800-57 Part 2 under Data integrity for more information.


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