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Cryptography

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Cryptography

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Section A

Answer any two questions.

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Describe the Feistel Cipher structure. Given the key {2B, 7E, 15, 16, 28, AE, D2, A6, AB, F7, 97, 66, 01, 02, 03, 04}, compute the first 4 bytes of the next key after the first iteration, using the provided S-Box in AES.

  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0 63 7C 77 7B F2 6B 6F C5 30 01 67 2B FE D7 AB 76

 

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Illustrate the man-in-the-middle attack in Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol. Assume the prime number be 19 and 10 as its primitive root. Select 5 as private key and 4 as random integer. Find the ciphertext of M = 2 using Elgamal crypto system.

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List the properties of hash function. Describe the algorithm for SHA-1.

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Section B

Answer any eight questions.

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Describe any three types of malicious logic.

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Given the key "HELLOWORLD", encrypt the plaintext "TURINGTEST" using Playfair cipher.

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Explain any two modes of block cipher encryption.

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State Fermat’s theorem with an example. What is the implication of discrete logarithm?

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Describe the working mechanism of digital signature algorithm

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List and explain the types of firewall.

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Decrypt the ciphertext "HI" using Hill Cipher where the key is

5 3
4 3

 

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What is a digital certificate? Discuss the certificate life cycle.

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Define authentication system. Discuss about challenge response system.

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