Cryptography I
An algorithm for performing encryption or decryption
What is a Chiper?
A 'chunk' of code that you can use over and over again
What is a function?
In asymmetric cryptography, a key that is shared publicly and used to encrypt data or verify digital signatures
What is a public key?
This statement is called an indefinite loop
What is a while loop?
The name of the recently launched missin to Jupiter's moon Europa
What is Clipper? (Europa Clipper also accepted)
The process of securely exchanging cryptographic keys between parties
What is Key Exchange?
First line of a function
What is a header?
A digital document used to verify the ownership of a public key, issued by a trusted authority
What is a certificate?
The order statements are executed in a program
What is the flow of execution?
How many neck bones (bony cervical vertebraes) do Giraffes have?
What is 7?
The practice of hiding messages or information within other non-suspicious data
What is stegonography?
This keyword is used to end the current iteration in a for loop (or a while loop), and continues to the next iteration
What is continue?
A function that converts an input into a fixed-size string of characters, typically a digest that represents the original data
What is a Hash? (Hash function also accepted)
Defining a function creates a ______ with the same name
What is a variable?
The world record for the tallest house of cards in feet
What is 25?
A type of cryptography that uses a pair of keys, one public and one private, for encryption and decryption
What is Asymmetric Key? (Asymmetric encryption also accepted)
The variable that changes each time the loop executes and controls when the loop finishes
What is the iteration variable?
A framework that defines how parties in a network trust each other and how trust is established and maintained
What is a Trust model?
Term describing situation where more than two branches are needed in a flow chart
What is a chained conditionals?
The number of words from the first verse in the Hebrew bible that weren't translated to english due to a lack of approriete translation in the English language
What is 2? (the words et (את) and ve'et (ואת))
The study of analyzing and breaking cryptographic systems
What is Cryptanalysis?
The pattern of processing a string is called
What is traversal?
The result of a hash function, which is a fixed-size string that uniquely represents the original data
What is a Message Digest?
Data structure which lets you create a sequence of any data type
What is a tuple?
Footware is never made of glass. The commonly accepted material Cinderella's shoe was made from (as a result of translation error)
What is squirrel fur?