Information Security MCQs and Notes
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Q 11. This type of intrusion relies on the intruder's ability to trick people into breaking normal security procedures.
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Q 12. An intruder might install this on a networked computer to collect user ids and passwords from other machines on the network.
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Q 13. This is a trial and error method used to decode encrypted data through exhaustive effort rather than employing intellectual strategies.
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Q 14. This is a mode of operation for a block cipher, with the characteristic that each possible block of plaintext has a defined corresponding cipher text value and vice versa.
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Q 15. In password protection, this is a random string of data used to modify a password hash.
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Q 16. This is the inclusion of a secret message in otherwise unencrypted text or images.
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Q 17. This is the encryption algorithm that will begin to supplant the Data Encryption Standard (DES) - and later Triple DES - over the next few years as the new standard encryption algorithm.
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Q 18. Developed by Philip R. Zimmermann, this is the most widely used privacy-ensuring program by individuals and is also used by many corporations.
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Q 19. This is the name for the issuer of a PKI certificate.
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Q 20. Today, many Internet businesses and users take advantage of cryptography based on this approach.
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