SDIA definition
Digital resource primitives (’digital resources’) are defined as the low-level resources required for digital products & services to operate. They can be seen as the fuel that power digital software application. The digital resource primitives are:
- Computation (CPU cycles, GPU cycles, operations per second)
- Memory
- Storage
- Network capacity
Digital resource primitives are often accessed through Cloud infrastructure, also commonly referred to as Infrastructure-as-Service.
Other definitions
In the context of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s definition of cryptographic primitives:
A low-level cryptographic algorithm used as a basic building block for higher-level cryptographic algorithms (https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/cryptographic_primitive)