Email Encryption and S/MIME Quiz
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Which email encryption standard provides end-to-end encryption and digital signatures for email messages?

  • SSL
  • PGP
  • TLS
  • S/MIME (correct)

What combination of encryption does S/MIME use to protect the contents of email messages?

  • Symmetric and asymmetric encryption (correct)
  • Asymmetric and hashing encryption
  • Hashing and symmetric encryption
  • Symmetric and public-key encryption

What is the purpose of digital signatures in S/MIME encryption?

  • To verify the authenticity and integrity of email messages (correct)
  • To provide end-to-end encryption for email messages
  • To encrypt the contents of email messages
  • To decrypt email messages

What is the purpose of adding a salt value to a password before hashing it?

<p>To make the hashing process more secure (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does hashing protect a password?

<p>It transforms the password into a fixed-length string of characters (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Can a database administrator easily retrieve a hashed password?

<p>Yes, if the password was not properly hashed (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hashing is a reversible process that can recover the original password from the hash.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

A good hashing algorithm is designed to be irreversible.

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

A salt value is added to a password before hashing to make the process less secure.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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