Encryption Acronyms

Question 1

SED

Answer 1

Self-Encrypted Drive

Question 2

FDE

Answer 2

Full-Disk Encryption

Question 3

EFS

Answer 3

Encrypting File System

Question 4

GPG

Answer 4

GNU Privacy Guard

Question 5

PGP

Answer 5

Pretty Good Privacy

Question 6

HTTPS

Answer 6

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

Question 7

SFTP

Answer 7

Secure File Transfer Protocol

Question 8

SSH

Answer 8

Secure Shell

Question 9

IPsec

Answer 9

Internet Protocol Security

Question 10

ESP

Answer 10

Encapsulating Security Protocol

Question 11

VPN

Answer 11

Virtual Private Network

Question 12

SRTP

Answer 12

Secure Real-time Transport Protocol

Question 13

CCMP

Answer 13

C -> Counter Mode (CM)
C -> Cipher Block Chaining (CBC)
M -> Message Authentication Code (MAC)
P -> Protocol

Question 14

TLS

Answer 14

Transfer Layer Security

Question 15

DHE

Answer 15

Diffie-Hellman key

Question 16

ECC

Answer 16

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Question 17

RSA

Answer 17

Rivets-Shamir-Adleman

Question 18

AES

Answer 18

Advanced Encryption Standard

Question 19

DES

Answer 19

Data Encryption Standard

Question 20

IDEA

Answer 20

International Data Encryption Algorithm

Question 21

RC4

Answer 21

Rivest Cipher 4

Question 22

KEK

Answer 22

Key Encryption Key

Question 23

IKE

Answer 23

Internet Key Exchange

Question 24

PFS

Answer 24

Perfect Forward Secrecy

Question 25

ECDHE

Answer 25

Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman

Question 26

CBC

Answer 26

Cipher Block Chaining

Question 27

CFB

Answer 27

Ciphertext Feedback

Question 28

CTM

Answer 28

Cyber Threat Monitoring

Question 29

ECB

Answer 29

Electronic Code Book

Question 30

GCM

Answer 30

Galois/Counter Mode