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EC-COUNCIL 212-81 Exam Syllabus Topics:

TopicDetails
Topic 1
  • Number Theory and Asymmetric Cryptography
  • Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Topic 2
  • International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA)
  • History of Cryptography
Topic 3
  • Server-based Certificate Validation Protocol
  • Classification of Random Number Generator
Topic 4
  • Cracking Modern Cryptography: Ciphertext-only and Related-key Attack
  • Cracking Modern Cryptography: Chosen Plaintext Attack
Topic 5
  • Symmetric Cryptography & Hashes
  • Single Substitution Weaknesses
Topic 6
  • Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
  • National Security Agency and Cryptography
Topic 7
  • Propagating Cipher-Block Chaining (PCBC)
  • Naor-Reingold and Mersenne Twister Pseudorandom Function
Topic 8
  • Symmetric Block Cipher Algorithms
  • Basic Facts of the Feistel Function
Topic 9
  • Steganography Implementations
  • Example of Symmetric Stream Ciphers: RC4
Topic 10
  • Introduction and History of Cryptography
  • Breaking the Vigenère Cipher
Topic 11
  • Birthday Paradox: Probability
  • Mono-Alphabet Substitution
Topic 12
  • Cracking Modern Cryptography
  • Example of Symmetric Stream Ciphers: PIKE
Topic 13
  • Shiva Password Authentication Protocol (S-PAP)
  • Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)

 

NEW QUESTION 76
Which of the following is an asymmetric algorithm that was first publically described in 1977?

  • A. RSA
  • B. Elliptic Curve
  • C. Twofish
  • D. DESX

Answer: A

Explanation:
RSA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)
RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem that is widely used for secure data transmission. It is also one of the oldest. The acronym RSA comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described the algorithm in 1977.
Incorrect answers:
Elliptic Curve - Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. ECC allows smaller keys compared to non-EC cryptography (based on plain Galois fields) to provide equivalent security.
Twofish - is a symmetric key block cipher with a block size of 128 bits and key sizes up to 256 bits. It was one of the five finalists of the Advanced Encryption Standard contest, but it was not selected for standardization. Twofish is related to the earlier block cipher Blowfish.
DESX - is a variant on the DES (Data Encryption Standard) symmetric-key block cipher intended to increase the complexity of a brute-force attack using a technique called key whitening.

 

NEW QUESTION 77
Which of the following acts as a verifier for the certificate authority?

  • A. Registration authority
  • B. Certificate Management system
  • C. Certificate authority
  • D. Directory management system

Answer: A

Explanation:
Registration authority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_authority
Registration authorities exist for many standards organizations, such as ANNA (Association of National Numbering Agencies for ISIN), the Object Management Group, W3C, IEEE and others. In general, registration authorities all perform a similar function, in promoting the use of a particular standard through facilitating its use. This may be by applying the standard, where appropriate, or by verifying that a particular application satisfies the standard's tenants. Maintenance agencies, in contrast, may change an element in a standard based on set rules - such as the creation or change of a currency code when a currency is created or revalued (i.e. TRL to TRY for Turkish lira). The Object Management Group has an additional concept of certified provider, which is deemed an entity permitted to perform some functions on behalf of the registration authority, under specific processes and procedures documented within the standard for such a role.

 

NEW QUESTION 78
The mode makes a block cipher into a synchronous stream cipher. It generates keystream blocks, which are then XORed with the plaintext blocks to get the ciphertext.

  • A. Cipher feedback (CFB)
  • B. Cipher-block chaining (CBC)
  • C. Output feedback (OFB)
  • D. Electronic codebook (ECB)

Answer: C

Explanation:
Output feedback (OFB)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation#Output_feedback_(OFB) The output feedback (OFB) mode makes a block cipher into a synchronous stream cipher. It generates keystream blocks, which are then XORed with the plaintext blocks to get the ciphertext. Just as with other stream ciphers, flipping a bit in the ciphertext produces a flipped bit in the plaintext at the same location. This property allows many error-correcting codes to function normally even when applied before encryption.
Incorrect answers:
Cipher feedback (CFB) - mode, a close relative of CBC, makes a block cipher into a self-synchronizing stream cipher.
Electronic codebook (ECB) - the simplest of the encryption modes (named after conventional physical codebooks). The message is divided into blocks, and each block is encrypted separately.
Cipher-block chaining (CBC) - Ehrsam, Meyer, Smith and Tuchman invented the cipher block chaining (CBC) mode of operation in 1976. In CBC mode, each block of plaintext is XORed with the previous ciphertext block before being encrypted. This way, each ciphertext block depends on all plaintext blocks processed up to that point. To make each message unique, an initialization vector must be used in the first block.

 

NEW QUESTION 79
Which one of the following are characteristics of a hash function? (Choose two)

  • A. Fast
  • B. Fixed length output
  • C. Symmetric
  • D. One-way
  • E. Requires a key

Answer: B,D

Explanation:
Correct answers: One-way, Fixed length output
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
A cryptographic hash function is a mathematical algorithm that maps data of arbitrary size (often called the "message") to a bit array of a fixed size (the "hash value", "hash", or "message digest"). It is a one-way function, that is, a function which is practically infeasible to invert.
Incorrect answers:
Symmetric. Cryptographic algorithms can be categorized into three classes: Hash functions, Symmetric and Asymmetric algorithms. Differences: purpose and main fields of application.
Requires a key. Well, technically, this is the correct answer. But in the hash-function, "key" is input data.
Fast. Fast or slow is a subjective characteristic, there are many different algorithms, and here it is impossible to say this unambiguously like "Symmetric encryption is generally faster than asymmetric encryption."

 

NEW QUESTION 80
Ciphers that write message letters out diagonally over a number of rows then read off cipher row by row. Also called zig-zag cipher.

  • A. Vigenere Cipher
  • B. Null Cipher
  • C. ROT-13
  • D. Rail Fence Cipher

Answer: D

Explanation:
Rail Fence Cipher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_fence_cipher
The rail fence cipher (also called a zigzag cipher) is a form of transposition cipher. It derives its name from the way in which it is encoded.
Incorrect answers:
Null cipher - also known as concealment cipher, is an ancient form of encryption where the plaintext is mixed with a large amount of non-cipher material. Today it is regarded as a simple form of steganography, which can be used to hide ciphertext.
Vigenere cipher - is a method of encrypting alphabetic text by using a series of interwoven Caesar ciphers, based on the letters of a keyword. It employs a form of polyalphabetic substitution.
ROT13 - ("rotate by 13 places", sometimes hyphenated ROT-13) is a simple letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the 13th letter after it, in the alphabet. ROT13 is a special case of the Caesar cipher which was developed in ancient Rome.

 

NEW QUESTION 81
The most common way steganography is accomplished is via which one of the following?

  • A. Isb
  • B. asb
  • C. msb
  • D. rsb

Answer: A

Explanation:
lbs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_numbering#:~:text=In%20computing%2C%20the%20least%20significant,number%20is%20even%20or%20odd.
The least significant bit (LSB) is the bit position in a binary integer giving the units value, that is, determining whether the number is even or odd. The LSB is sometimes referred to as the low-order bit or right-most bit, due to the convention in positional notation of writing less significant digits further to the right. It is analogous to the least significant digit of a decimal integer, which is the digit in the ones (right-most) position.

 

NEW QUESTION 82
A non-secret binary vector used as the initializing input algorithm for encryption of a plaintext block sequence to increase security by introducing additional cryptographic variance.

  • A. L2TP
  • B. Salt
  • C. Nonce
  • D. IV

Answer: D

Explanation:
IV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization_vector
In cryptography, an initialization vector (IV) or starting variable (SV) is a fixed-size input to a cryptographic primitive that is typically required to be random or pseudorandom. Randomization is crucial for encryption schemes to achieve semantic security, a property whereby repeated usage of the scheme under the same key does not allow an attacker to infer relationships between segments of the encrypted message. For block ciphers, the use of an IV is described by the modes of operation. Randomization is also required for other primitives, such as universal hash functions and message authentication codes based thereon.
Incorrect answers:
L2TP - PPTP combined with L2F (Layer 2 Forwarding) (Cisco proprietary protocol) - Uses EAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP, PAP, or S-PAP for authentication. IPSec is used to provide encryption.
Salt - random bits of data intermixed with the message that is to be hashed.
Nonce - an arbitrary number that can be used just once in a cryptographic communication. It is similar in spirit to a nonce word, hence the name. It is often a random or pseudo-random number issued in an authentication protocol to ensure that old communications cannot be reused in replay attacks. They can also be useful as initialization vectors and in cryptographic hash functions.

 

NEW QUESTION 83
Which algorithm was U. S. Patent 5,231,668, filed on july 26, 1991, attributed to David W. Kravitz, and adopted by the U. S. government in 1993 with FIPS 186?

  • A. RC4
  • B. AES
  • C. RSA
  • D. DSA

Answer: D

Explanation:
DSA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signature_Algorithm
DSA is covered by U.S. Patent 5,231,668 , filed July 26, 1991 and now expired, and attributed to David
W. Kravitz, a former NSA employee. This patent was given to "The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, Washington, D.C.", and NIST has made this patent available worldwide royalty-free. Claus
P. Schnorr claims that his U.S. Patent 4,995,082 (also now expired) covered DSA; this claim is disputed.

 

NEW QUESTION 84
This algorithm was published by the German engineering firm Seimans in 1993. It is a software based stream cipher using Lagged Fibonacci generator along with a concept borrowed from the shrinking generator ciphers.

  • A. RC4
  • B. Twofish
  • C. FISH
  • D. Blowfish

Answer: C

Explanation:
FISH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISH_(cipher)
The FISH (FIbonacci SHrinking) stream cipher is a fast software based stream cipher using Lagged Fibonacci generators, plus a concept from the shrinking generator cipher. It was published by Siemens in 1993. FISH is quite fast in software and has a huge key length. However, in the same paper where he proposed Pike, Ross Anderson showed that FISH can be broken with just a few thousand bits of known plaintext.

 

NEW QUESTION 85
What is the formula m^e %n related to?

  • A. Encrypting with RSA
  • B. Decrypting with RSA
  • C. Generating Mersenne primes
  • D. Encrypting with EC

Answer: A

Explanation:
Encrypting with RSA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)
RSA Encrypting a message m (number) with the public key (n, e) is calculated:
M' := m^e %n
Incorrect answers:
Decrypting with RSA:
M'' := m^d %n
Generation Mersenne primes:
Mn = 2^n - 1
Encrypting with Elliptic Curve (EC):
y^2 = x^3 + ax + b

 

NEW QUESTION 86
Which of the following encryption algorithms relies on the inability to factor large prime numbers?

  • A. RSA
  • B. AES
  • C. MQV
  • D. EC

Answer: A

Explanation:
Correct answers: RSA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)
RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem that is widely used for secure data transmission. It is also one of the oldest. The acronym RSA comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described the algorithm in 1977. An equivalent system was developed secretly, in 1973 at GCHQ (the British signals intelligence agency), by the English mathematician Clifford Cocks. That system was declassified in 1997.
In a public-key cryptosystem, the encryption key is public and distinct from the decryption key, which is kept secret (private). An RSA user creates and publishes a public key based on two large prime numbers, along with an auxiliary value. The prime numbers are kept secret. Messages can be encrypted by anyone, via the public key, but can only be decoded by someone who knows the prime numbers.
The security of RSA relies on the practical difficulty of factoring the product of two large prime numbers, the "factoring problem". Breaking RSA encryption is known as the RSA problem. Whether it is as difficult as the factoring problem is an open question. There are no published methods to defeat the system if a large enough key is used.
Incorrect answers:
EC - Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. ECC allows smaller keys compared to non-EC cryptography (based on plain Galois fields) to provide equivalent security.
AES - Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael, is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.
AES is a subset of the Rijndael block cipher developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen, who submitted a proposal to NIST during the AES selection process. Rijndael is a family of ciphers with different key and block sizes. For AES, NIST selected three members of the Rijndael family, each with a block size of 128 bits, but three different key lengths: 128, 192 and 256 bits.
MQV - (Menezes-Qu-Vanstone) is an authenticated protocol for key agreement based on the Diffie-Hellman scheme. Like other authenticated Diffie-Hellman schemes, MQV provides protection against an active attacker. The protocol can be modified to work in an arbitrary finite group, and, in particular, elliptic curve groups, where it is known as elliptic curve MQV (ECMQV).

 

NEW QUESTION 87
Which of the following areas is considered a strength of symmetric key cryptography when compared with asymmetric algorithms?

  • A. Security
  • B. Scalability
  • C. Key distribution
  • D. Speed

Answer: D

Explanation:
Speed
Symmetric key systems are considerably faster than asymmetric key systems but have issues with proper key distribution, controlling keys as more users need to communicate, and cannot provide non-repudiation or authenticity.

 

NEW QUESTION 88
John is responsible for VPNs at his company. He is using IPSec because it has two different modes. He can choose the mode appropriate for a given situation. What are the two modes of IPSec? (Choose two)

  • A. Transport mode
  • B. Decrypt mode
  • C. Encrypt mode
  • D. Tunnel mode

Answer: A,D

Explanation:
Correct answers: Transport mode and Tunnel mode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec#Modes_of_operation
The IPsec protocols AH and ESP can be implemented in a host-to-host transport mode, as well as in a network tunneling mode.

 

NEW QUESTION 89
In 2007, this wireless security algorithm was rendered useless by capturing packets and discovering the passkey in a matter of seconds. This security flaw led to a network invasion of TJ Maxx and data theft through a technique known as wardriving.
Which Algorithm is this referring to?

  • A. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
  • B. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
  • C. Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2)
  • D. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)

Answer: B

Explanation:
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy#Weak_security
In 2007, Erik Tews, Andrei Pychkine, and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann were able to extend Klein's 2005 attack and optimize it for usage against WEP. With the new attack it is possible to recover a 104-bit WEP key with probability 50% using only 40,000 captured packets. For 60,000 available data packets, the success probability is about 80% and for 85,000 data packets about 95%. Using active techniques like deauth and ARP re-injection, 40,000 packets can be captured in less than one minute under good conditions. The actual computation takes about 3 seconds and 3 MB of main memory on a Pentium-M 1.7 GHz and can additionally be optimized for devices with slower CPUs. The same attack can be used for 40-bit keys with an even higher success probability.

 

NEW QUESTION 90
Which of the following is the successor of SSL?

  • A. RSA
  • B. GRE
  • C. IPSec
  • D. TLS

Answer: D

Explanation:
TLS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#History_and_development TLS 1.0 was first defined in RFC 2246 in January 1999 as an upgrade of SSL Version 3.0, and written by Christopher Allen and Tim Dierks of Consensus Development. As stated in the RFC, "the differences between this protocol and SSL 3.0 are not dramatic, but they are significant enough to preclude interoperability between TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0". Tim Dierks later wrote that these changes, and the renaming from "SSL" to "TLS", were a face-saving gesture to Microsoft, "so it wouldn't look [like] the IETF was just rubberstamping Netscape's protocol".

 

NEW QUESTION 91
You are studying classic ciphers. You have been examining the difference between single substitution and multi-substitution. Which one of the following is an example of a multi-alphabet cipher?

  • A. Atbash
  • B. Vigenere
  • C. Rot13
  • D. Caesar

Answer: B

Explanation:
Vigenere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigen%C3%A8re_cipher
The Vigenere cipher is a method of encrypting alphabetic text by using a series of interwoven Caesar ciphers, based on the letters of a keyword. It employs a form of polyalphabetic substitution.
First described by Giovan Battista Bellaso in 1553, the cipher is easy to understand and implement, but it resisted all attempts to break it until 1863, three centuries later. This earned it the description le chiffre indechiffrable (French for 'the indecipherable cipher'). Many people have tried to implement encryption schemes that are essentially Vigenere ciphers. In 1863, Friedrich Kasiski was the first to publish a general method of deciphering Vigenere ciphers.

 

NEW QUESTION 92
A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable.

  • A. Whitening
  • B. Entropy
  • C. Collision
  • D. Diffusion

Answer: B

Explanation:
Entropy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
In information theory, the entropy of a random variable is the average level of "information", "surprise", or "uncertainty" inherent in the variable's possible outcomes. The concept of information entropy was introduced by Claude Shannon in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication".
Incorrect answers:
Diffusion - transposition processes used in encryption functions to increase randomness.
Whitening - technique intended to increase the security of an iterated block cipher. It consists of steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
Collision - situation where two different inputs yield the same output.

 

NEW QUESTION 93
DES has a key space of what?

  • A. 2^128
  • B. 2^64
  • C. 2^56
  • D. 2^192

Answer: C

Explanation:
2^56
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard
The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a symmetric-key algorithm for the encryption of digital data. Although its short key length of 56 bits makes it too insecure for applications, it has been highly influential in the advancement of cryptography.

 

NEW QUESTION 94
Which of the following is a type of encryption that has two different keys. One key can encrypt the message and the other key can only decrypt it?

  • A. Stream cipher
  • B. Symmetric
  • C. Block cipher
  • D. Asymmetric

Answer: D

Explanation:
Asymmetric
Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is a cryptographic system that uses pairs of keys: public keys, which may be disseminated widely, and private keys, which are known only to the owner. The generation of such keys depends on cryptographic algorithms based on mathematical problems to produce one-way functions. Effective security only requires keeping the private key private; the public key can be openly distributed without compromising security.
Incorrect answers:
Symmetric - Symmetric-key algorithms are algorithms for cryptography that use the same cryptographic keys for both encryption of plaintext and decryption of ciphertext.
Block cipher - A block cipher is a deterministic algorithm operating on fixed-length groups of bits, called blocks. It uses an unvarying transformation, that is, it uses a symmetric key.
Stream cipher - A stream cipher is a symmetric key cipher where plaintext digits are combined with a pseudorandom cipher digit stream (keystream). In a stream cipher, each plaintext digit is encrypted one at a time with the corresponding digit of the keystream, to give a digit of the ciphertext stream.

 

NEW QUESTION 95
Numbers that have no factors in common with another.

  • A. Even Numbers
  • B. Co-prime numbers
  • C. Mersenne Primes
  • D. Fibonacci Numbers

Answer: B

Explanation:
Correct answers: Co-prime numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprime_integers
Two integers a and b are said to be relatively prime, mutually prime, or coprime if the only positive integer (factor) that evenly divides both of them is 1. Consequently, any prime number that divides one of a or b does not divide the other. This is equivalent to their greatest common divisor (gcd) being 1.
The numerator and denominator of a reduced fraction are coprime. The numbers 14 and 25 are coprime, since 1 is their only common divisor. On the other hand, 14 and 21 are not coprime, because they are both divisible by 7.
Incorrect answers:
Even Numbers - A formal definition of an even number is that it is an integer of the form n = 2k, where k is an integer; it can then be shown that an odd number is an integer of the form n = 2k + 1 (or alternately, 2k - 1). It is important to realize that the above definition of parity applies only to integer numbers, hence it cannot be applied to numbers like 1/2 or 4.201. See the section "Higher mathematics" below for some extensions of the notion of parity to a larger class of "numbers" or in other more general settings.
Fibonacci Numbers - commonly denoted F_n, form a sequence, called the Fibonacci sequence, such that each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting from 0 and 1.
Mersenne Primes - is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. That is, it is a prime number of the form M_n = 2^n - 1 for some integer n. They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century. If n is a composite number then so is 2^n - 1. Therefore, an equivalent definition of the Mersenne primes is that they are the prime numbers of the form M_p = 2^p - 1 for some prime p.

 

NEW QUESTION 96
Uses a formula, M_n = 2^n - 1 where n is a prime number, to generate primes. Works for 2, 3, 5, 7 but fails on 11 and on many other n values.

  • A. Mersenne Primes
  • B. Co-prime Numbers
  • C. Even Numbers
  • D. Fibonacci Numbers

Answer: A

Explanation:
Correct answers: Mersenne Primes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime
Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. That is, it is a prime number of the form M_n = 2^n - 1 for some integer n. They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century. If n is a composite number then so is 2^n - 1. Therefore, an equivalent definition of the Mersenne primes is that they are the prime numbers of the form M_p = 2^p - 1 for some prime p.
Incorrect answers:
Even Numbers - A formal definition of an even number is that it is an integer of the form n = 2k, where k is an integer; it can then be shown that an odd number is an integer of the form n = 2k + 1 (or alternately, 2k - 1). It is important to realize that the above definition of parity applies only to integer numbers, hence it cannot be applied to numbers like 1/2 or 4.201. See the section "Higher mathematics" below for some extensions of the notion of parity to a larger class of "numbers" or in other more general settings.
Fibonacci Numbers - commonly denoted F_n, form a sequence, called the Fibonacci sequence, such that each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting from 0 and 1.
Co-prime Numbers - two integers a and b are said to be relatively prime, mutually prime, or coprime if the only positive integer (factor) that evenly divides both of them is 1. Consequently, any prime number that divides one of a or b does not divide the other. This is equivalent to their greatest common divisor (gcd) being 1.

 

NEW QUESTION 97
How did the ATBASH cipher work?

  • A. By rotating text a given number of spaces
  • B. By substituting each letter for the letter from the opposite end of the alphabet (i.e. A becomes Z, B becomes Y, etc.)
  • C. By shifting each letter a certain number of spaces
  • D. By Multi alphabet substitution

Answer: B

Explanation:
By substituting each letter for the letter from the opposite end of the alphabet (i.e. A becomes Z, B becomes Y, etc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atbash
The Atbash cipher is a particular type of monoalphabetic cipher formed by taking the alphabet (or abjad, syllabary, etc.) and mapping it to its reverse, so that the first letter becomes the last letter, the second letter becomes the second to last letter, and so on.

 

NEW QUESTION 98
Which of the following is a key exchange protocol?

  • A. AES
  • B. MQV
  • C. DES
  • D. RSA

Answer: B

Explanation:
MQV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQV
MQV (Menezes-Qu-Vanstone) is an authenticated protocol for key agreement based on the Diffie-Hellman scheme. Like other authenticated Diffie-Hellman schemes, MQV provides protection against an active attacker. The protocol can be modified to work in an arbitrary finite group, and, in particular, elliptic curve groups, where it is known as elliptic curve MQV (ECMQV).
Incorrect answers:
RSA - (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem that is widely used for secure data transmission. It is also one of the oldest. The acronym RSA comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, who publicly described the algorithm in 1977.
AES - Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael, is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.
DES - Data Encryption Standard is a symmetric-key algorithm for the encryption of digital data.

 

NEW QUESTION 99
A _____ is a function is not reversible.

  • A. Stream cipher
  • B. Block Cipher
  • C. Asymmetric cipher
  • D. Hash

Answer: D

Explanation:
Hash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function
Hash functions are irreversible. This is actually required for them to fulfill their function of determining whether someone possesses an uncorrupted copy of the hashed data. This brings susceptibility to brute force attacks, which are quite powerful these days, particularly against MD5.

 

NEW QUESTION 100
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