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Ephemeral

Updated: 04/26/2017 by Computer Hope

Ephemeral means "lasting a very short time." In computing, an ephemeral object can be very useful: for instance, in cryptography an ephemeral key is a cryptographic key used only once and discarded very quickly.

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