QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS || GRADED A+
\.Initializing Vector (Symmetric Algorithm Methods) - Answer- -Used with:
-Nonce-Generated Initializing Vector
-Counter Initializing Vector
-Fixed Initializing Vector
-Random Initializing Vector
- FIPS Standard:
- FIPS 180-2: Secure Hash Algorithm (SAH-1)
\.Cryptography - Answer- -Is the study of secure communication mechanisms and methods
-Provides ways to encode a message so that it cannot be read by outsiders
\.Mono-Alphabet Substitution ciphers examples - Answer- -AtBash
-Ceaser
-ROT13
-Scytale
\.Mono-Alphabet Substitution ciphers definition - Answer- -Single Alphabet
,-Preserve the underlying letter and word frequency and are vulnerable to cryptoanalysis as a
result
-Frequency analysis can be used to break Mono-Alphabet substitution
\.Atbash Cipher - Answer- -Reverses the alphabet
- A becomes Z, B becomes Y ...
- Mono-Alphabet Substitution Cipher
-Used by ancient Hebrew scholars
\.Ceasar Cipher - Answer- -Choose some number by which to shift each letter of the message
- right is "+" and left is "-"
- "2" and "1", A becomes C and C becomes B
- Mono-Alphabet Substitution Cipher
\.ROT-13 - Answer- -Rotate all charachters 13 letters through the alphabet
- A becomes N, B becomes O ...
,- Mono-Alphabet Substitution Cipher
\.Scytale Cipher - Answer- -A simple transposition cipher
-system that employs a rod of a certain thickness around which was wrapped a long, thin strip
of parchment.
-Uses a rod of certain length to create and encrypt a message
-The same rod must be used to read and decrypt the message by the recipient
\.Multi-Alphabet Substitution Ciphers examples - Answer- -The cipher disk
-The Vigenere cipher
-The Playfair Cipher
-The ADFGVX Ciper
-The Enigma Machine
\.Multi-Alphabet Substitution Ciphers definition - Answer- -Adds complexity by adding
alphabets to be used for the substitution rounds
-Example:
-We are using three alphabets to do the shifting
-Each represented by a "+" or a "-" value
-When we run out of of alfahabets, we start over again with the first one, effectivly "round
robing"
-This is dont through the text until it is all shifted
- " A DOG" (+1, -2, +1)
, - "B BPH"
\.The Cipher Disk - Answer- -Cryptographic device that uses two concentric disks, each with
an alphabet around the periphery.
-A physical device used to encrypt
-Invented by Leon Albert in 1466
-The cipher disk was poly-alphabetic
-Each time you turned the disk, you used a different cipher
-Multi-Alphabet Substitution Cipher
\.The Vigenere Cipher - Answer- -Invented in 1553 by Giovan Battista Bellaso
- It is named for Blasie de Vigenere who deveopled a stronger version cipher
-It is a method of encrypting by using a series of interwoven Caesar ciphers based on the letters
of a keyword
-Poly-alphabetic cipher system
-Friedrich Kasiski published the first successful attack against it in 1863