Exam 8: Information Security

____ is a nontechnical method of getting password information from individuals.

A block cipher encodes one character at a time.

In an asymmetric encryption algorithm, also called a public key encryption algorithm, the key for encryption and the key for decryption are quite different, although related.

____ verifies who has the right to gain access to the computer, whether it is your local machine or the web server.

How does Triple DES improve the security of DES?

Any positive ____________________ is either a prime number or a number that can be written in a unique way as a product of prime factors.

When a user attempts to log on to the machine, a hash function reads the user ID and checks that the password matches the password for that user in the password file.

The most common public-key encryption algorithm is ____.

____ is a series of protocols developed by Netscape Communications in the mid-1990s.

DES is a block cipher and the blocks are 48 bits long. _________________________