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What is the most fundamental problem that cryptography addresses?
What is the most fundamental problem that cryptography addresses?
- Ensuring the security of communication over an insecure medium (correct)
- Ensuring the reliability of communication over a secure medium
- Ensuring the speed of communication over a secure medium
- Ensuring the anonymity of communication over an insecure medium
What does 'confidentiality' mean in the context of secure communication?
What does 'confidentiality' mean in the context of secure communication?
- Only the intended recipient can see the communication (correct)
- The communication is generated by the alleged sender
- The adversary can eavesdrop on the communication
- The adversary has full control over the communication channel
What does 'integrity' mean in the context of secure communication?
What does 'integrity' mean in the context of secure communication?
- The adversary can eavesdrop on the communication
- The adversary has full control over the communication channel
- Only the intended recipient can see the communication
- The communication is generated by the alleged sender (correct)
What are the two possibilities for an insecure medium according to cryptography?
What are the two possibilities for an insecure medium according to cryptography?
What does 'steganography' rely on to hide the existence of a message?
What does 'steganography' rely on to hide the existence of a message?
What does 'cryptography' rely on to hide the meaning of a message?
What does 'cryptography' rely on to hide the meaning of a message?
What is the security goal that ensures a message really originated from Alice?
What is the security goal that ensures a message really originated from Alice?
Which security goal prevents an adversary from reading message M?
Which security goal prevents an adversary from reading message M?
What does non-repudiation refer to in the context of cryptography?
What does non-repudiation refer to in the context of cryptography?
Which term describes the assurance that private or confidential information is not made available to unauthorized individuals?
Which term describes the assurance that private or confidential information is not made available to unauthorized individuals?
What is the primary function of digital signatures in secure communication?
What is the primary function of digital signatures in secure communication?
Which cryptographic method is also known as public-key encryption?
Which cryptographic method is also known as public-key encryption?
'Cryptography' relies on transforming an intelligible message into one that is unintelligible and retransforming it back. What does this process ensure?
'Cryptography' relies on transforming an intelligible message into one that is unintelligible and retransforming it back. What does this process ensure?
'Cryptography' relies on transforming an intelligible message into one that is unintelligible and retransforming it back. What does this process ensure?
'Cryptography' relies on transforming an intelligible message into one that is unintelligible and retransforming it back. What does this process ensure?
