Lecture 8 Flashcards
Cryptography: comes from ?
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Cryptology
Greek
Cryptography: Kryptos means ?
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Cryptology
hidden
Cryptography: Grahein means ?
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Cryptology
to write
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Process of making and using codes to secure the transmission of information
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Cryptology
Cryptography
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Process of obtaining the original message form encrypted message
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Cryptology
Cryptanalysis
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Process of converting an original message into a form that is unreadable to unauthorized individuals
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Cryptology
Encryption
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Process of converting the encrypted message (cipertext) into an easily read message (plain text)
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Cryptology
Decryption
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Programmatic steps to encrypt message
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Cryptology - Basic Definitions
Algorithm
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Encryption method or process
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Cipher
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Encrypted message
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Ciphertext or cryptogram
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Process of converting unencrypted components into encrypted components
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Code
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Convert to plaintext
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Decipher
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To encrypt
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Encipher
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Information used with the algorithm to encrypt
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Cryptology - Basic Definitions
Key or crypto-variable
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Entire range of values that can possibly be used to construct an individual key
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Cryptology - Basic Definitions
Key-space
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Series of encryptions /decryptions between a number of systems
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Cryptology - Basic Definitions
Link encryption
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The original message
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Cryptology - Basic Definitions
Plaintext or clear text
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Process of hiding messages
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Cryptology - Basic Definitions
Steganography
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Amount - effort required to perform cryptanalysis
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Cryptology - Basic Definitions
Work factor
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(2) Cipher methods
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Cryptology - Cipher methods
- Bit stream method
- Block cipher method
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Each bit in the plaintext is transformed bit by bit
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Cryptology - 1/2 Cipher methods 1/2 ?
Bit stream method
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Most common use XOR
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Cryptology - 1/2 Cipher methods 2/2 ?
Bit stream method
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Messaged divided into blocks
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Cryptology - 2/2 Cipher methods 1/3 ?
Block cipher method
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Each block is encoded
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Cryptology - 2/2 Cipher methods 2/3 ?
Block cipher method