Crypto Vocab

Front

Ceasar cipher

Back

A technique for encryption that shifts the alphabet by a number of characters.

Front

cipher

Back

the generic term for a technique or algorithm that performs encryption.

Front

Random substitution cipher

Back

Maps each letter of the alphabet to a randomly chosen letter.

Front

Asymmetric encryption

Back

Encryption technique with different keys for encrypting and decrypting.

Front

symmetric encryption

Back

an encryption technique where the same key encrypts and decrypts data.

Front

Cracking encryption

Back

Decoding a secret message without knowing all specifics of the cipher.

Front

Decryption

Back

Reversing encryption to reproduce the original plain text.

Front

Encryption

Back

The process of encoding messages to keep them secret.

Front

Computationally hard

Back

A problem that a computer cannot solve in a reasonable amount of time.

Front

Modulo

Back

A mathematical operation that returns the remainder after integer division.