Unit 4 - Cryptography & Linux

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A single on/off or 0/1 in a computer's transistor is known as a:

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bit

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Which of the following is not a measure of the number of bytes in a computer? a) Zilobyte, b) Kilobyte, c) Megabyte, d) Terabyte

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Zilobyte

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The system which represents alpha-numeric data in a computer, such as A = 65 = 01000001 is called:

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ASCII

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Which of the following is the base 16 number system? a) Hexadecimal, b) Binary, c) Decimal, d) Octal

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Hexadecimal

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Representing a range of characters by some kind of conversion system, like ASCII, is called:

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Encoding

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CTF stands for:

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Capture the Flag

Front

How many bits are there in a byte?

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8

Front

Scrambling data so that it is unreadable to anyone except those who know the trick to decoding it is...

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Cryptography

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The data that has been encrypted is called...

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Ciphertext

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This is a method of encryption in which the order of the letters is changed. Scytale cipher, in which a ribbon is wrapped around a cylinder, is an example.

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Transposition