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CB3491 CRYPTOGRAPHY AND CYBER SECURITY

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The process of converting plain text into cipher text is _________________

a)
decryption
b)
encoding
c)
hashing
d)
encryption
2.

Symmetric encryption is also known as _______________

a)
public key encryption
b)
asymmetric encryption
c)
hash-based encryption
d)
secret key encryption
3.

The Caesar cipher is a _________ cipher that has a key of 3.

a)
transposition
b)
block
c)

additive

d)
stream
4.

The ___________ cipher reorders the plain text characters to create a cipher text.

a)
substitution
b)
hashing
c)
transposition
d)
encryption
5.

Which of the following stage of cryptography are the non readable encrypted data?

a)
key
b)
hash
c)
plaintext
d)
ciphertext
6.

Which type of encryption uses the same key for both encryption and decryption?

a)
Asymmetric encryption
b)
Hashing
c)
Base64 encoding
d)
Symmetric encryption
7.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good encryption algorithm?

a)

Confidentiality

b)

Integrity

c)

Availability

d)

Authenticity

8.

Which of the following is not a type of attack on  encryption?

a)

Brute force attack

b)

Dictionary attack

c)

Collision attack

d)

Compression attack

9.

Which of the following is a type of attack on encryption that tries every possible key combination?

a)

Brute force attack

b)

Dictionary attack

c)

Collision attack

d)

Rainbow table attack

10.

Which of the following is not a type of cipher?

a)

Substitution cipher

b)

Transposition cipher

c)

Vigenere cipher

d)

RSA cipher