ASSIGNMENT 1 BASIC CRYPTOGRAPHY DCT 1559

Basic Cryptography DCT 1559 Assignment 1:

1. What is the OSI security architecture?
2. What is the difference between passive and active security threats?
3. List and briefly define categories of passive and active security attacks.
4. List and briefly define categories of security services.
5. List and briefly define categories of security mechanisms.
6. What are the essential ingredients of a symmetric cipher?
7. What are the two basic functions used in encryption algorithms?
8. How many keys are required for two people to communicate via a cipher?
9. What is the difference between a block cipher and a stream cipher?
10. What are the two general approaches to attacking a cipher?
11. List and briefly define types of cryptanalytic attacks based on what is known to the
attacker.
12. What is

the

difference

between

an

unconditionally

secure

cipher

and

computationally secure cipher?

13. Briefly define the Caesar cipher.
14. Briefly define the Vigenre cipher.
15. Briefly define the Affine cipher.
16. What is the difference between a Caeser and Vigenere cipher?
17. What are two problems with the one-time pad?
18. What is steganography?
19. What is the difference between a block cipher and a stream cipher?
20. What is the difference between diffusion and confusion?
Note: Assignment should range between 1100 to 1500 words, 10-15 pages only.

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Assignment structures are as follows:1. Front page (college logo, program name, course name, course code, students full
name, students id number, lecturers name, submission date)
2. Acknowledgments
3. Table of content
4. Answer of the above questions
5. Appendices
6. References
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Theme fonts of Times New Roman (font size 12) or Arial (font size 11)
Justify paragraph
Line spacing 1.5
Date of submission:
1. 24th May 2016 (Softcopy via email)
2. 27th May 2016 (Hardcopy)

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