Encryption

What is encryption?

• Building tombs

• Protecting data by scrambling it

• Unscrambling data to read it

• Exploring church basements

What do you call the algorithm used to encrypt data?

• Flux capacitor

• Oscillation overthruster

• Cipher

• Transmogrifier

What do we call scrambled, encrypted data?

• Garbage

• Ciphertext

• Plaintext

• Gibberish

What do we call unscrambled, readable data?

• ASCII

• Ciphertext

• Plaintext

• Purple prose

Who used the Caesar Cipher?

• Augustus Caesar

• Hadrian Caesar

• Julius Caesar

• Palpatine Caesar

Who worked out how to break the German Enigma code?

• Alan Titchmarsh

• Alan Shearer

• Alan Turing

• Alan Partridge

Which engineer designed and built Colossus, the Lorenz cipher cracking computer?

• Tommy Fury

• Tommy Flowers

• Tommy Lee Jones

• Tommy Cooper

Which two fictional characters are used to describe encryption scenarios and algorithms?

• Bob and Alice

• Bonnie and Clyde

• Boris and Alistair

• Bert and Ernie

Which protocol should you use if shopping online?

• FTP

• SMTP

• HTTP

• HTTPS

Which of these do you need to keep secret?

• The cipher algorithm

• Your public encryption key

• Your private decryption key

• Your MAC address