Applied Cryptography (CY-603 (B)) - Important Questions

How would you test a piece of cipher text to determine quickly if it was likely the result of simple substation? Explain.

Critically analyze the security of RSA.

Write short notes on any three of: Merkle-Hellman, asymmetric encryption, computational efficiency vs hardness, GCM mode.

List the main features of the SHA-2 cryptographic hash function and identify the kind of compression function used in SHA-2.

Explain Message Authentication Requirements and what are the attacks related to message communication? Discuss.

What are the design principles of block ciphers? Explain.

Explain the operation of the DES algorithm.

Compare secret key, private key and public key.

Explain the RSA algorithm.

What are the goals of network security? Discuss.

Enumerate the difference between passive attacks and active attacks? Give examples for each.

List and briefly define categories of Security Services and attacks.

Explain about Traffic Confidentiality.

Describe the functionalities of Internet Key Exchange Protocol.

How to provide security during Inter-branch Payment Transactions? Discuss.