Review Questions

1. What is a password?

2. What is the process of getting someone to carry out a task for you?

3. Are more complex passwords stronger or weaker than simpler passwords?

4. What method should you first use to get a password?

5. What type of password attack tries passwords from a predefined list?

6. Which type of password attack uses passwords from a list and then tries variations on each element from the list?

7. What is an algorithm for encrypting and decrypting data?

8. What term describes an encrypted message?

9. The Rijndael cipher is the basis for which symmetric encryption algorithm?

10. Which symmetric encryption algorithm uses 56-bit keys?