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WorksheetsHW: Week 2 - Cybersecurity - Alan Turing
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
Where did Alan Turing work during WWII?
Edinburgh
Hyde Park
Bromsgrove
Bletchley Park
As well as being a mathematician, Alan Turing is famous for being a:
Cryptographer
Librarian
Philanthropist
Stamp collector
Turing worked to figure out how to decrypt German communications, especially those that used:
the two-rotor encryptor
the Manchester Mark 1
Bombe electro-mechanical devices
the Engima Machine
What is the method by which information is converted into secret code that hides the information's true meaning?
encryption
imprinting
corrupting
CAPTCHA creation
Which special-purpose electromechanical computer was used to help break Enigma codes?
the Turing Machine
the Bombe
the Church-Turing Machine
the Manchester Mark 1
If you were to use a caeser cipher with a key of 3 shifts to the left, how would you encrypt the word: Cipher?
ZAMEBO
ZOMEBO
ZFMEBO
ZFMEBA
For the English alphabet, how many rows and columns are there on a polybius square?
3x3
4x5
6x6
5x5
Which of the methods of encryption have you enjoyed using so far: Caesar, Polybius, Pigpen, Morse.
What type of German messages did the Bombe machine manage to decrypt?
Weather Reports
Dinner Choices
Telegrams
Civilian chatter
