SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner: Cryptography

What is salt in the IT World? correct answer: random piece of additional input data that provided to a one way hashing function Salting is often used with what? correct answer: passwords and passphrases In Salting what is stored? correct answer: the hash is stored not the actual password or passphrase and the salt is also stored What does salting ensure? correct answer: that each user password is hashed uniquely What attack does salting defend against? correct answer: Attack on hash values using a redlined table of hash values What type of data sources might be used in salting? correct answer: randomized data such as email address, account id , date and time stamp What is a rainbow table attack? correct answer: Attack on hash values using a redlined table of hash values Symmetric Encryption is also called what? correct answer: private and secret key cryptography Symmetric encryption is referred to as what? correct answer: two way cryptography Why is symmetric encryption referred to as two way cryptography? correct answer: because it uses the same shared encryption key to encrypt and decrypt data Where can Symmetric encryption be used? correct answer: data at rest and data in transit Which is faster Symmetric or asymmetric? correct answer: symmetric DES correct answer: Data Encryption Standard What type of encryption is DES? correct answer: symmetric 3DES correct answer: Triple Data Encryption Algorithm What type of encryption is 3DES? correct answer: symmetric AES correct answer: Advanced Encryption Standard What type of encryption is AES? correct answer: symmetric