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Using Rivest, Shamir, Adleman cryptosystem with p=7 and q=9. Encrypt M=24 to find ciphertext. The Ciphertext is:

A. 42

B. 93

C. 114

D. 103

Correct Answer :

C. 114


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Which of the following security services cannot be achieved using the Hash functions?ORWhich of the following is not possible through hash value?

A. Password Check

B. Data Integrity check

C. Digital Signatures

D. Data retrieval in its original form

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The DES (Data Encryption Standard) cipher follows the fiestal structure. Which of the following properties are not shown by the fiestal structure?

A. The input text is divided into two parts: one being left half and another one being right half.

B. Swapping of the left and right halves are performed after each round.

C. The plain text is converted into a matrix form first

D. None of the above

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Amongst which of the following is/ are true with reference to step-by-step breakdown of the process of quantum cryptography,

A. The sender sends a photon through a polarizer with randomly assigned polarizations and bit assignment

B. Photon uses a beam splitter that can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal to decode or read the polarization of each photon

C. Receiver tells the sender the random assignments of a beam splitter for each photon in the same sequence it was sent

D. All of the mentioned above

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Amongst which of the following is/ are showing the goodness of electronic code book,

A. Parallel encryption of blocks of bits is possible

B. It is a faster way of encryption.

C. Simple way of the block cipher.

D. All of the mentioned above

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A cryptographic hash function is an equation used to verify the ____ of data.

A. Variety

B. Validity

C. Veracity

D. None of the mentioned above

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____ is the message or data that can be readable by the sender.

A. Edited

B. Main Text

C. Plain text

D. All of the mentioned above

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Which of the following options is not correct according to the definition of the Cipher Block Chaining (CBC)?

A. CBC is a mode of operation for stream ciphers.

B. Initialization vector (IV) is used in CBC in the initial phase.

C. It has better resistive nature towards cryptanalysis than ECB

D. None of the above

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Which of the following options correctly defines the Brute force attack?

A. Brutally forcing the user to share the useful information like pins and passwords.

B. Trying every possible key to decrypt the message.

C. One entity pretends to be some other entity

D. The message or information is modified before sending it to the receiver.

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What is the output of the N 1024-bit blocks from the Nth stage in this?

A. 512 bits

B. 1024 bits

C. N x 1024bits

D. N x 512 bits

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Security Goals of Cryptography are

A. Confidentiality

B. Authenticityn

C. Data integrityn

D. All of these

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A key is a string of bits used by a cryptographic algorithm to transform plain text into ciphertext. Which of the following is capable of becoming a key in a cryptographic algorithm?

A. An integer values

B. A square matrix

C. An array of characters (i.e. a string)

D. All of the above

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With symmetric key algorithms, the ____ key is used for the encryption and decryption of data.

A. Different

B. Same

C. Both A and B

D. None of the mentioned above

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The process of decryption of an AES ciphertext is similar to the encryption process in the ______.

A. Reverse order

B. Next order

C. Both A and B

D. All of the mentioned above

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Amongst which of the following is / are true with reference to the rounds in AES

A. Byte Substitution

B. Shift Row

C. Mix Column and Key Addition

D. All of the mentioned above

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Which of the following security attacks is not an active attack? ORWhich of the following attacks is a passive attack?

A. Masquerade

B. Modification of message

C. Denial of service

D. Traffic analysis

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When do we compare the AES with DES, which of the following functions from DES does not have an equivalent AES function in cryptography?

A. f function

B. permutation p

C. swapping of halves

D. xor of subkey with function f

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Decryption is a process to unveil the ______.

A. Unsecured data

B. Secured data

C. Insecure

D. None of the mentioned above

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Which of the following is /are offered by the Hash functions?

A. Authentication

B. Non repudiation

C. Data Integrity

D. All of the above

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When a hash function is used to provide message authentication, the hash function value is called to as:

A. Message Field

B. Message Digest

C. Message Score

D. Message Leap

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_____ and encryption is two separate cryptographic processes.

A. Hashing

B. Decryption

C. Processing

D. None of the mentioned above

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Quantum cryptography is the science of exploiting quantum mechanical properties to perform _____.

A. Cryptographic system

B. Cryptographic tasks

C. Decryption system

D. None of the mentioned above

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In Cipher block chaining mode, the current plaintext block is added to the ____.

A. Previous ciphertext block

B. Next ciphertext block

C. Middle ciphertext block

D. None of the mentioned above

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ElGamal encryption system is an asymmetric key encryption algorithm.

A. Public-key cryptography

B. Private-key cryptography

C. Both

D. None of these

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Which of the following options is not correct according to the definition of the Hash Function?

A. Hash Functions are mathematical functions

B. They compress the input values

C. The hash functions work on arbitrary length input but produces fixed length output.

D. None of the above

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How many elements are used in cryptography tools?

A. 1

B. 4

C. 6

D. 3

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Which of the following is not a principle of data security?

A. Data Confidentiality

B. Data Integrity

C. Authentication

D. None of the above

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The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is an example of a ...

A. Conventional cryptosystem

B. Asymmetric cryptosystem

C. Caesar's cryptosystem

D. All of these

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The private key in asymmetric key cryptography is kept by

A. Sender

B. Receiver

C. Sender and receiver

D. All the connected devices to the network

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Which of the following cipher techniques include the involvement of matrix operations in their algorithms of encryption and decryption?

A. Hill Cipher

B. Playfair cipher

C. Both a and b

D. None of the above

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Among the following given options, chose the strongest encryption technique?

A. DES ( Data Encryption Standard)

B. Double DES

C. Triple DES

D. AES (Advance Encryption Standard)