D334 Final Exam Questions And
Answers(Revised).
XOR the following
0101110101010111
1001100000111010
------------------ - ANSWER 1100010101101101
asymmetric key-based encryption
-typical methods - ANSWER RSA
DSA
El Gamal
Symmetric key-based encryption
-Typical Methods - ANSWER RC2- 40 bit key size 64 bit block
RC4- (Stream Cipher)- Used in SSL and WEP
RC5- (Variable Key size, 32, 64, or 128 bit block size)
AES- (128, 192 or 256 bit key size, 128 bit block size)
DES- (56 bit key size. 64 bit Block size)
3DES- (112 bit key size, 64 bit block size)
Block Encryption - ANSWER RC2(40 bit key size)
RC5(Variable block size)
IDEA
DES
3DES
AES (Rijndael)
Blowfish
Twofish
What is the key size for 3DES? - ANSWER 112 bits
,AES when operating with 10 rounds uses what key size? -
ANSWER 128 bits
AES when operating with 14 rounds uses what block size? -
ANSWER 256
AES when operating with 12 rounds uses what key size? -
ANSWER 192 bits
Which variation of Elliptic Curve cryptography is used to
support symmetric key exchange? - ANSWER ECDH
The Paillier cryptosystem supports _____ encryption. -
ANSWER homomorphic
PKCS #__ is a standard used for password-based encryption. -
ANSWER PKCS #5
PKCS #__is used to sign and/or encrypt messages for PKI. -
ANSWER PKCS #7
stream encryption - ANSWER RC4
Chacha
Rainbow Attack - ANSWER The method of knowing the
mapping between the hashed values and the original data
Dictionary-type attack - ANSWER a brute force analysis
∉ - ANSWER does not belong to
when an object is not in a set
∈ - ANSWER Belongs to
when an object is within a set
⊆ - ANSWER subset
,subset has fewer elements or equal to the set
A ∪ B - ANSWER union (objects that belong to set A or set B)
| - ANSWER such that
A ∩ B - ANSWER Intersection: in both A and B
Enigma Machine -Cypher 10 - ANSWER Used a
polyalphabetic substitution cipher, which did not repeat within a
reasonable time period, along with a secret key. For the cracking
of the Enigma cipher, the challenge was thus to determine both
the algorithm used and the key. Enigma's main weakness,
though, was that none of the plain text letters could be ciphered
as itself.
Four-square cipher9 - ANSWER Uses four 5 × 5 matrices
arranged in a square, are where each matrix contains 25 letters
for encoding and decoding operations.
One-time pad cypher8 - ANSWER Cypher Code mapping that
is only used once.
Advantage: it is essentially unbreakable.
Disadvantage: it takes lots of work as you would have to
generate the pad to be used, each time.
Vigenere Cipher 7 - ANSWER Polyalphabetic cipher that
involves using a different mapping, based on a keyword, for
each character of the cipher. An advantage of this type of cipher
is that the same plaintext character is likely to be coded to
different mappings, depending on the position of the keyword,
making guessing more difficult.
Ceasar Cipher6 - ANSWER Mono-alphabetic substitution
cipher known as "shift" cipher. Involves plaintext being replaced
by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet.
i.e., a Caesar Cipher using a shift of +3 would mean a plaintext
, letter A would result in a ciphertext letter D (a shift of three
positions to the right in the alphabet)
Morse Code cipher 5 - ANSWER Encoding method, rather than
a cipher, that works by translating characters into sequences of
dots (.) and dashes (-)
Playfair Cipher 4 - ANSWER 5 × 5 matrix containing the
alphabet less the letter J. Cipher/decipher process consists of a
set of rules outlining use of column and row combinations.
BIFID Cipher 3 - ANSWER Makes use of a grid and which
maps the letters into numeric values.
Rail Code Cipher 2 - ANSWER Employs a method to scramble
text by writing it in a sequence across a number of rails.
Pig Pen Cipher 1 - ANSWER Mono- alphabetic substitution
cipher that makes use of mapping plaintext characters to
graphical characters rather than to alphabetic ones. i.e. A=(pick
a symbol), vs A=(pick a letter). Disadvantage: once the mapping
is known, it is difficult to keep the message secret.
Encryption - ANSWER in simplest terms is changing plaintext
into ciphertext
Decryption - ANSWER The process of converting a ciphertext
into plaintext.
AESCrypt - ANSWER Encrypt individual files and encrypt full
disks with options such as Bitlocker and FileVault
Mono-alphabetic - ANSWER c code or substitution is where a
single mapping from our alphabet to a cipher alphabet is created.
Many early cryptosystems used this.