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What is Cryptology?
Study of Cryptography
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What is Cryptanalysis?
Practise of defeating the cryptography
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What is Plaintext?
Readable form of message
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What is ciphertext?
Mathematical function that determines the cryptographic operation
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What are the two forms of algorithm?
Asymmetric and Symmetric
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What is a cryptovariable?
Secret value is used to transform the message
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What does key space mean?
Number of keys available
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What are the goals of cryptography?
Confidentiality, Integrity, Authenticity, Non-repudiation, access control, work time
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Name three substitution techniques?
Caesar cipher, Scramble Alaphabet, Confusion
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Name four Simple Transposition Techniques?
Columnar, Polyalphabetic, Vignere Cipher, Difusion
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