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ITN 266 Exam practice questions and answers |100% pass What is cryptography? - Answer-The use of mathematical operations to protect messages traveling between parties or stored on a computer. What is a cipher? - Answer-A specific mathematical process used in encryption and decryption What is ...

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ITN 266 Exam practice questions and
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What is cryptography? - Answer✔✔-The use of mathematical operations to protect messages

traveling between parties or stored on a computer.


What is a cipher? - Answer✔✔-A specific mathematical process used in encryption and

decryption


What is a key? - Answer✔✔-a random string of 40 to 4000 bits (ones and zeros).


What is a cryptanalyst? - Answer✔✔-Someone who cracks encryption


What is a substitution cipher? - Answer✔✔-One character is substituted for another.


What is a transposition cipher? - Answer✔✔-letters are moved around within a message, they

are not substituted.


In code, what do code symbols represent? - Answer✔✔-More limited than ciphers, as they use

code symbols that represent complete words or phrases.


Symmetric Key Encryption - Answer✔✔-A single key is used for encryption and decryption in

both directions. Nearly all encryption for confidentiality use. Symmetric key encryption.




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Key length - Answer✔✔-Each additional bit in the key doubles the time it will take to crack they

key (100 bits or longer is considered strong today)


Data Encryption Standard (DES) - Answer✔✔-DES quickly became the most widely used

symmetric key encryption method.


Describe DES block encryption. - Answer✔✔-DES is a block encryption standard - it encrypts 64

bits at a time. 56-bit 8 redundant bits = 64 bit ciphertext block


Triple DES (3DES) - Answer✔✔-Extends the effective key size of DES in a simple but painfully

slow way that uses a moderate amount of RAM (when firms need stronger encryption than DES

provides)


Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - Answer✔✔-Released in 2001, efficient enough in terms

of processing power and RAM requirements to be used on a wide variety of devices, from cell

phones to personal digital assistants. Three alt key length: 128, 192, and 256 bits.


Security through obscurity - Answer✔✔-the principle of relying on secrecy to create security by

hiding potential vulnerabilities.


Cryptographic system - Answer✔✔-A packaged set of cryptographic countermeasures for

protecting dialogues - more than just cryptography


Why is the first handshaking stage the negotiation of security methods and options? -

Answer✔✔-Handshaking is when two parties (devices or programs) begin to communicate via a




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