Lesson 19: Information Theory and Cryptography Quiz

Who showed that information can be stored and transmitted as a series of 0s and 1s?

• Marcel Golay

• Alan Turing

• Richard Hamming

• Claude Shannon

What are the goals of Information Theory?

• Efficiency of storage and transmission

• All of the above

• Error detection and correction; data integrity

• Secrecy and Authentication

What is the science of encryption, or making information secret?

• Information Theory

• Telecommunications

• Coding Theory

• Cryptography

What is the science of detecting and correcting errors that occur during transmission?

• Telecommunications

• Coding Theory

• Information Theory

• Cryptography

According to a research at Cambridge University, why can you read a total mess without a problem?

• Because the human mind reads every letter individually

• Because the human mind does not read every letter individually

• Because the human mind reads every letter backwards

• Because the human mind reads every letter twice

What is the mathematics of error-correction in the transmission of information?

• Information Theory

• Coding Theory

• Telecommunications

• Cryptography

What is the name of the 13 (or 10) digit code with numbers from 0 to 9, and sometimes letter X, to stand for 10?

• Universal Product Codes

• UPC Barcode

• QR Code

• ISBN

What is the name of the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (2-dim barcode) first designed in 1994 for the auto industry in Japan?

• QR Code

• UPC Barcode

• ISBN

• Universal Product Codes

What is the name of the communication problem illustrated with Bob and Alice?

• Error-Correction Problem

• Noise Problem

• Communication Model Problem

• Information Transmission Problem

What is the name of the first cryptosystem to use public-key cryptography?

• Dickie-Hellman

• Enigma

• RSA

• Vigenere