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HW: Week 2 - Cybersecurity - Alan Turing

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was this man?
a)
John von Neumann
b)
Donald Knuth
c)
Alan Turing
d)
Tim Berners-Lee
2.

Where did Alan Turing work during WWII?

a)

Edinburgh

b)

Hyde Park

c)

Bromsgrove

d)

Bletchley Park

3.

As well as being a mathematician, Alan Turing is famous for being a:

a)

Cryptographer

b)

Librarian

c)

Philanthropist

d)

Stamp collector

4.

Turing worked to figure out how to decrypt German communications, especially those that used:

a)

the two-rotor encryptor

b)

the Manchester Mark 1

c)

Bombe electro-mechanical devices

d)

the Engima Machine

5.

What is the method by which information is converted into secret code that hides the information's true meaning?

a)

encryption

b)

imprinting

c)

corrupting

d)

CAPTCHA creation

6.

Which special-purpose electromechanical computer was used to help break Enigma codes?

a)

the Turing Machine

b)

the Bombe

c)

the Church-Turing Machine

d)

the Manchester Mark 1

7.

If you were to use a caeser cipher with a key of 3 shifts to the left, how would you encrypt the word: Cipher?

a)

ZAMEBO

b)

ZOMEBO

c)

ZFMEBO

d)

ZFMEBA

8.

For the English alphabet, how many rows and columns are there on a polybius square?

a)

3x3

b)

4x5

c)

6x6

d)

5x5

9.

Which of the methods of encryption have you enjoyed using so far: Caesar, Polybius, Pigpen, Morse.

4 lines
10.

What type of German messages did the Bombe machine manage to decrypt?

a)

Weather Reports

b)

Dinner Choices

c)

Telegrams

d)

Civilian chatter