Blown to Bits Chapter 5

advanced encryption standard, a symmetric 128-bit block data encryption technique

• AES
• certification authority
• cipher text
• DES

(CA), a trusted organization or company that issues digital certificates used to create digital signatures and public-private key pairs

• certification authority
• cipher text
• DES
• decryption

data that has been encrypted

• cipher text
• DES
• decryption
• encryption

data encryption standard, a popular symmetric-key encryption method that uses a 56-bit key and uses a block cipher method which breaks text into 64-bit blocks and then encrypts them

• DES
• decryption
• encryption
• packet

the process of decoding data that has been encrypted into a secret format

• decryption
• encryption
• packet
• plain text

the translation of data into secret code

• encryption
• packet
• plain text
• router

a piece of message transmitted over a packet-switching network

• packet
• plain text
• router
• AES

refers to textual data in ASCII format. Plain text is the most portable format because it is supported by nearly every application on every machine

• plain text
• router
• AES
• certification authority

a device that forwards data packets along networks. A router is connected to at least two networks are located at gateways

• router
• AES
• certification authority
• cipher text