EC Council Certified Encryption Specialist

What is cryptography? CORRECT ANSWERS: Noun - A) The process or skill of communicating in or deciphering secret writings or ciphers B) Secret writing Origin - Cryptography (or cryptology); derived from word kryptos which means "hidden", and grafo, which means "write", is the study of message secrecy Definition- Cryptography is the science of altering communication so that it cannot be understood without having the key Interloper CORRECT ANSWERS: a person who becomes involved in...

How did the ATBASH cipher work? a. By shifting each letter a certain number of spaces b. By Multi alphabet substitution c. By rotating text a given number of spaces d. By substituting each letter for the letter from the opposite end of the alphabet (i.e. A becomes Z, B becomes Y, etc.) CORRECT ANSWERS: d. By substituting each letter for the letter from the opposite end of the alphabet (i.e. A becomes Z, B becomes Y, etc.) DES has a key space of what? a. 2^128 b. 2^192 c. 2^56 d. 2^...