Communications Security Equipment
- Equipment designed to provide security to telecommunications by converting information to a form unintelligible to an unauthorized interceptor and by reconverting such information to its original form for authorized recipients, as well as equipment designed specifically to aid in, or as an essential element of, the conversion process. Communications security equipment is crytoequipment, cryptoancillary equipment, cryptoproduction equipment, and authentication equipment. (JCS1-DoD) See also communications security.