csc327

Cryptography

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Cryptography

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Section A

Answer any two questions.

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Illustrate the concept of security policy and mechanism with an example. Differentiate between block cipher and stream cipher. Explain the process of key expansion in AES.

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Describe the properties of hash functions. Discuss how hash value is generated using SHA-1 algorithm.

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Show that Z 5is a field. John publishes the ElGamal public key (q, α, YA) =(101, 2, 14). Jane desired to send the secret message CSIT to John. Using the equivalence A = 0, B=1, … , Z=25, encrypt the message using John’s public key. Use a random number k = 4.

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Section B

Answer any eight questions.

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Differentiate between Trojan horse and virus. Describe any two types of intruders.

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The message “IMOGUN” was encrypted with a Playfair cipher using keyword “GALOIS”. Decrypt the message.

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How encryption is done using IDEA algorithm.

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Describe the services provided by Pretty Good Privacy protocol to secure email.

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Define challenge response system. Why do we need Kerberos?

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How direct digital signature different from arbitrated digital signature? How digital signature generation and verification is done using RSA.

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Why do we need discrete logarithm over normal logarithm? Find out whether 3 is primitive root of 7 or not.

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Which one is more secure, monoalphabetic cipher or poly alphabetic cipher? Justify. Using rail fence cipher encrypt the text “LEARNING AND TEACHING ARE DIFFERENT” using 3 as rails.

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What is the condition of for two integers, x and y, to be relatively prime? Find whether 61 is prime or not using Miller-Rabin algorithm.

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