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WorksheetsCryptography Basics Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is cryptography?
A way to store passwords
Scrambling information to protect it
A type of computer virus
A programming language
Which encryption method uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt?
Asymmetric
Caesar Cipher
Symmetric
Public Key
Which encryption method uses two different keys?
Symmetric
Caesar Cipher
Asymmetric
Vigenère Cipher
What is a “key” in cryptography?
A password to unlock a computer
A shared secret used to decrypt data
A type of encryption
A computer virus
What does “decryption” mean?
Encrypting data
Scrambling data
Converting encrypted data back to its original form
Hiding data
Which is faster for ongoing data transmission?
Asymmetric encryption
Symmetric encryption
Caesar Cipher
Public key encryption
What is encryption?
A person who tricks you into giving your password
converting information or data into a code to prevent unauthorized access.
To upload your personal data to the cloud
When there is a security breach in your data
To encrypt a message you need 2 main parts, a _________ & a key
cipher
code
algorithm
crypt
The fundamental problem in cryptography is:
Message secrecy
Key exchange
Lock exchange
Algorithm complexity
_______ 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
