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A collision attack is an attempt to find two input strings of a hash function that produce the same hash result.
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After the DES cipher was broken and no longer considered secure, what encryption algorithm was made as its successor?
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Asymmetric cryptographic algorithms are also known as private key cryptography.
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Ciphertext is the scrambled and unreadable output of encryption.
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Data that is in an unencrypted form is referred to as which of the following?
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plain text
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crypttext
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cleartext
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simpletext
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Encryption is the practice of transforming information so that it is secure and cannot be accessed by unauthorized parties.
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GNU Privacy Guard a proprietary software that runs on different operating systems.
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If Bob receives an encrypted reply message from Alice, whose private key is used to decrypt the received message?
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If using the MD5 hashing algorithm, what is the length to which each message is padded?
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64 bits
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128 bits
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32 bits
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512 bits
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In cryptography, which of the five basic protections ensures that the information is correct and no unauthorized person or malicious software has altered that data?
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confidentiality
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encryption
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availability
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integrity
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In information technology, non-repudiation is the process of proving that a user performed an action.
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In which type of encryption is the same key used to encrypt and decrypt data?
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public
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asymmetric
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symmetric
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private
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Obfuscation is making something well known or clear.
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One of the first popular symmetric cryptography algorithms was RSA.
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The SHA-1 hashing algorithm creates a digest that is how many bits in length?.
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192 bits
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160 bits
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128 bits
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96 bits
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The simplest type of stream cipher, one in which one letter or character is exchanged for another, is known as what?
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loop
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lock
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substitution
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shift
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The XOR cipher is based on the binary operation eXclusive OR that compares two bits.
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What alternative term can be used to describe asymmetric cryptographic algorithms?
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public key cryptography
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user key cryptography
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private key cryptography
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cipher-text cryptography
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What cryptographic method, first proposed in the mid-1980s, makes use of sloping curves instead of large prime numbers?
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What is a block cipher algorithm that operates on 64-bit blocks and can have a key length from 32 to 448 bits?
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Blowfish
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Whirlpool
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Rijndal
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Twofish
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What is the U.S. federal government standard for digital signatures?
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Data Encryption Standard
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Advanced Encryption Standard
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Digital Signature Algorithm
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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What technology uses a chip on the motherboard of the computer to provide cryptographic services?
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What term best describes when cryptography is applied to entire disks instead of individual files or groups of files?
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full disk encryption
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system encryption
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OS encryption
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disk encryption
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What term describes data actions being performed by endpoint devices, such as printing a report from a desktop computer?
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data-in-transit
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data-at-rest
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data-in-use
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data-in-play
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What type of cipher takes one character and replaces it with one character, working one character at a time?
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block cipher
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unit cipher
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single cipher
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stream cipher
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What type of cryptographic algorithm creates a unique digital fingerprint of a set of data?
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What type of cryptography uses two keys instead of just one, generating both a private and a public key?
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shared
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asymmetric
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symmetric
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open
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What type of message authentication code uses hashing to authenticate the sender by using both a hash function and a secret cryptographic key?
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What widely used commercial asymmetric cryptography software can be used for encrypting files and email messages?
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When Bob needs to send Alice a message with a digital signature, whose private key is used to encrypt the hash?
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Which hash algorithm's primary design feature is two different and independent parallel chains of computation, the results of which are then combined at the end of the process?
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Which key exchange requires Alice and Bob to each agree upon a large prime number and related integer?
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Which of the following are considered to be common asymmetric cryptographic algorithms? (Choose all that apply.)
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Digital Signature Algorithm
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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Data Encryption Standard
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Advanced Encryption Standard
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Which of the following asymmetric cryptography algorithms is most commonly used?
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Which of the following is a public key system that generates random public keys that are different for each session?
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public secrecy
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ephemeral-secrecy
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random-key exchange
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perfect forward secrecy
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Which of the following is more secure than software encryption?
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hardware encryption
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full disk encryption
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private encryption
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application encryption
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Which of the following is not one of the functions of a digital signature?
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verification of the sender
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protect the public key
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prove the integrity of the message
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prevention of the sender from disowning the message
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Which standard was approved by NIST in late 2000 as a replacement for DES?
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Which type of cryptographic algorithm takes an input string of any length, and returns a string of any requested variable length?
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sponge
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block
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substitution
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loop
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Wireless data networks are particularly susceptible to known ciphertext attacks.