Encryption and stenography Flashcards

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What is encryption?

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Is how we achieve confidentiality, it does not hide the data, but makes the data incomprehensible

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What are the three states of data?

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Data at rest, Data in use, and data at transit

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What is stream cipher?

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Takes and encrypts information byte by byte

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What is block ciphers?

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It encrypts your information block by block usually in 164 byte parts

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What is the comparison between block and stream ciphers

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Stream is easier to reverse and faster.

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What is the comparison between block and stream ciphers

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Stream is easier to reverse and faster.

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What is the comparison between block and stream ciphers

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Stream is easier to reverse and faster vs Block is harder to reverse and slower

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modes of operation

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ECB-weakest Cipher block chaining-errors affect whole chain Cipher feedback-works like stream cipher Ouput feedback-works like stream cipher Counter mode-strongest

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What is steganography?

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It does not encrypt the information it hides the information inside media by replacing some bytes within the image.

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