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Glossary: Cryptography and PKI

AESGCM

Also written: AESGCM.generate_key

The class in Python's `cryptography` library that does AES encryption in GCM mode, giving both secrecy and an integrity tag in one step. Its `encrypt` and `decrypt` methods take a nonce, the data and optional additional data.

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Related terms

GCM (Galois/Counter Mode)AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)