212-81 Exam Question 36

A symmetric block cipher designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier. Was intended as a replacement for DES. Like DES it is a 16 round Feistel working on 64bit blocks. Can have bit sizes 32bits to 448bits.
  • 212-81 Exam Question 37

    A cryptographic hash function which uses a Merkle tree-like structure to allow for immense parallel computation of hashes for very long inputs. Authors claim a performance of 28 cycles per byte for MD6-256 on an Intel Core 2 Duo and provable resistance against differential cryptanalysis.
  • 212-81 Exam Question 38

    The mode makes a block cipher into a synchronous stream cipher. It generates keystream blocks, which are then XORed with the plaintext blocks to get the ciphertext.
  • 212-81 Exam Question 39

    In a ______ the attacker discovers a functionally equivalent algorithm for encryption and decryption, but without learning the key.
  • 212-81 Exam Question 40

    Numbers that have no factors in common with another.