Cryptography

  1. What is Cryptology?
    Study of Cryptography
  2. What is Cryptanalysis?
    Practise of defeating the cryptography
  3. What is Plaintext?
    Readable form of message
  4. What is ciphertext?
    Mathematical function that determines the cryptographic operation
  5. What are the two forms of algorithm?
    Asymmetric and Symmetric
  6. What is a cryptovariable?
    Secret value is used to transform the message
  7. What does key space mean?
    Number of keys available
  8. What are the goals of cryptography?
    Confidentiality, Integrity, Authenticity, Non-repudiation, access control, work time
  9. Name three substitution techniques?
    Caesar cipher, Scramble Alaphabet, Confusion
  10. Name four Simple Transposition Techniques?
    Columnar, Polyalphabetic, Vignere Cipher, Difusion
Author
Mikey
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192122
Card Set
Cryptography
Description
Cryptography
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