Cryptography & Python Flashcards
What is Cryptography?
Cryptography is the protection of information through codes or ciphers.
What is a Caesar Cipher?
Caesar Cipher is a way of sending a message so that other people cannot understand the contents in the event that the message is intercepted.
What is the Enigma machine?
The Enigma machine was a helpful device during WWII, as it was used to send encoded messages to other armies, but intercepting armies couldn’t decipher the text so it was a great ally during the war.
What is asymmetric encryption?
Person 1 sends an encrypted video link using a public key.
Person 2 then receives the encrypted video link on their device.
Person 1 then sends
Person 2 their private key which Person 2 uses to watch the video.
What is a chatbot?
A chatbot is a code that is programmed to have an active conversation with humans, one example is Eliza a program that was made to be a therapy type of bot that people could talk to.
What is AI?
AI stands for ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and is a computer code that can actively learn from the information it is given and will run like a computer whether it is speaking or writing AI can do all of it and it will slowly grow more intelligent until it has no boundaries.
What is frequency analysis?
frequency analysis is the study of the frequency of letters or groups of letters in a ciphertext. The method is used as an aid to breaking substitution ciphers
