Cryptography

What is encryption?

• When you put data / text into code making it difficult to read or understand.
• A secret or disguised way of writing; a code.
• A formal language designed to communicate instructions to a machine
• What is put in, taken in, or operated on by any process or system.

A cipher is _________________________.

• a person who makes up secret codes

• an algorithm that is used to scramble text so that it can be passed in secret

• a lock that can be used to lock a message in a lock box

• any puzzle, such as a crossword or Sudoku puzzle

Who was the first known user of the Caesar Cipher?

• Caesar Romanus

• Julius Caesar

• Alan Turing

• There isn't one

In Cryptography, the original message, before being transformed, is called

• Simple Text

• Plain Text

• Cipher Text

• Filled Text

_______ is the science and art of transforming messages to make them secure and immune to attacks.

• Cryptography

• Cryptoanalysis

• neither Cryptography nor Cryptoanalysis

• either Cryptography or Cryptoanalysis

Encrypt the word alphabet using a Caesar cipher with a shift of 3

• DVSDULQV

• DOOFOHDU

• DOSKDEHW

• DORQHBHV

The process of converting a ciphertext into plaintext.

• encryption

• decryption

• plaintext

• cryptography

The following word was encrypted using a Caesar cipher with a shift of 2: ecguct. What word is it?

• julius

• caesar

• romans

• cipher

A method for determining a solution to a problem by sequentially testing all possible solutions.

• brute force

• relative frequency

• cipher

• paired keys

What machine was used during WWII to encrypt and decrypt German messages?

• Enigma
• Atbash
• Secret
• Puzzler