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Cryptographic Service Provider

Short for Cryptographic Service Provider it provides software or hardware-based encryption and decryption services.  It contains implementations of cryptographic standards and algorithms. At a minimum, a CSP consists of a dynamic-link library (DLL) that implements the functions in CryptoSPI (a system program interface). Most CSPs contain the implementation of all of their own functions.

See also cryptography.



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