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Ch 3 - Basic Cryptography

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Question 1

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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.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 2

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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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  • AES
  • RSA
  • Twofish
  • 3DES

Question 3

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Asymmetric cryptographic algorithms are also known as private key cryptography.
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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Ciphertext is the scrambled and unreadable output of encryption.
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  • True
  • False

Question 5

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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
  • crypttext
  • cleartext
  • simpletext

Question 6

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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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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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GNU Privacy Guard a proprietary software that runs on different operating systems.
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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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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  • Alice's private key
  • Bob's private key
  • Bob's private key and Alice's public key
  • Bob and Alice's keys

Question 9

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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
  • 128 bits
  • 32 bits
  • 512 bits

Question 10

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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
  • encryption
  • availability
  • integrity

Question 11

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In information technology, non-repudiation is the process of proving that a user performed an action.
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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In which type of encryption is the same key used to encrypt and decrypt data?
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  • public
  • asymmetric
  • symmetric
  • private

Question 13

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Obfuscation is making something well known or clear.
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  • True
  • False

Question 14

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One of the first popular symmetric cryptography algorithms was RSA.
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  • True
  • False

Question 15

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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
  • 160 bits
  • 128 bits
  • 96 bits

Question 16

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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
  • lock
  • substitution
  • shift

Question 17

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The XOR cipher is based on the binary operation eXclusive OR that compares two bits.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 18

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What alternative term can be used to describe asymmetric cryptographic algorithms?
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  • public key cryptography
  • user key cryptography
  • private key cryptography
  • cipher-text cryptography

Question 19

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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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  • RSA
  • ECC
  • FCC
  • IKE

Question 20

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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
  • Whirlpool
  • Rijndal
  • Twofish

Question 21

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What is the U.S. federal government standard for digital signatures?
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  • Data Encryption Standard
  • Advanced Encryption Standard
  • Digital Signature Algorithm
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Question 22

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What technology uses a chip on the motherboard of the computer to provide cryptographic services?
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  • SEDs
  • TPM
  • FDE
  • HSM

Question 23

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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
  • system encryption
  • OS encryption
  • disk encryption

Question 24

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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
  • data-at-rest
  • data-in-use
  • data-in-play

Question 25

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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
  • unit cipher
  • single cipher
  • stream cipher

Question 26

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What type of cryptographic algorithm creates a unique digital fingerprint of a set of data?
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  • hash
  • block
  • digest
  • key

Question 27

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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
  • asymmetric
  • symmetric
  • open

Question 28

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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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  • RIPEMD
  • HMAC
  • SHA-384
  • MD5

Question 29

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What widely used commercial asymmetric cryptography software can be used for encrypting files and email messages?
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  • PGP
  • GPG
  • EFS
  • GNUPG

Question 30

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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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  • Bob's private key
  • Bob and Alice's keys
  • Alice's private key
  • Bob's private key and Alice's public key

Question 31

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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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  • HMAC
  • RIPEMD
  • SHA-384
  • MD5

Question 32

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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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  • Prime-Curve
  • Quantum Prime
  • Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
  • Diffie-Hellman

Question 33

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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
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography
  • Data Encryption Standard
  • Advanced Encryption Standard

Question 34

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Which of the following asymmetric cryptography algorithms is most commonly used?
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  • AES
  • Blowfish
  • RSA
  • Twofish

Question 35

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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
  • ephemeral-secrecy
  • random-key exchange
  • perfect forward secrecy

Question 36

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Which of the following is more secure than software encryption?
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  • hardware encryption
  • full disk encryption
  • private encryption
  • application encryption

Question 37

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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
  • protect the public key
  • prove the integrity of the message
  • prevention of the sender from disowning the message

Question 38

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Which standard was approved by NIST in late 2000 as a replacement for DES?
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  • AES
  • Twofish
  • RSA
  • 3DES

Question 39

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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
  • block
  • substitution
  • loop

Question 40

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Wireless data networks are particularly susceptible to known ciphertext attacks.
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  • True
  • False
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