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Encryption

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is encryption?

a)

Building tombs

b)

Protecting data by scrambling it

c)

Unscrambling data to read it

d)

Exploring church basements

2.

What do you call the algorithm used to encrypt data?

a)

Flux capacitor

b)

Oscillation overthruster

c)

Cipher

d)

Transmogrifier

3.

What do we call scrambled, encrypted data?

a)

Garbage

b)

Ciphertext

c)

Plaintext

d)

Gibberish

4.

What do we call unscrambled, readable data?

a)

ASCII

b)

Ciphertext

c)

Plaintext

d)

Purple prose

5.

Who used the Caesar Cipher?

a)

Augustus Caesar

b)

Hadrian Caesar

c)

Julius Caesar

d)

Palpatine Caesar

6.

Who worked out how to break the German Enigma code?

a)

Alan Titchmarsh

b)

Alan Shearer

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Alan Partridge

7.

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

a)

Tommy Fury

b)

Tommy Flowers

c)

Tommy Lee Jones

d)

Tommy Cooper

8.

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

a)

Bob and Alice

b)

Bonnie and Clyde

c)

Boris and Alistair

d)

Bert and Ernie

9.

Which protocol should you use if shopping online?

a)

FTP

b)

SMTP

c)

HTTP

d)

HTTPS

10.

Which of these do you need to keep secret?

a)

The cipher algorithm

b)

Your public encryption key

c)

Your private decryption key

d)

Your MAC address