Modular Arithmetic
Historical Ciphers
Asymmetric Encryption
Hashing Function
World Happenings
100

7 MOD 15

7

100

This cipher maps every letter randomly to another letter

Substitution cipher

100

How is asymmetric encryption different from symmetric encryption?

one key to encrypt, another to decrypt

100

What are a 2 things the has function is used for?

password storage & digital certificates & digital signatures

100

This singer was finally 'set free' after a 15 year conservatorship.

Brittney Spears

200

(8+10) MOD 12

6

200

This cipher was created by the ancient Romans and shifts the entire alphabet

Caesar Cipher

200

What is the name of the world-changing asymmetric encryption scheme?

Public Key Encryption

200

What is a hash collision?

When 2 inputs have the same output.

200

What was just approved for children 5 and older?

Pfizer COVID vaccine

300

25 MOD 50

25

300

This cipher replaces all of the letters in the alphabet with symbols

Pigpen Cipher

300

What serves as the one-way function in public key encryption?

Modular Arithmetic

300

Tell me one fact about the length of a hash digest.

fixed-length, depending on the type of function being used.

300

What will be the next Marvel Movie?

Spider-Man: No Way Home

400

(7 * 3) MOD 19

2

400

This cipher's encrypted text is a list of numbers that map to a page, line, and word in a specific text. 

Book Cipher

400

In an asymmetric encryption scheme, THIS is kept private and is never shared, and is used to decrypt messages.

Private Key

400

What are 3 characteristics of a good hash function?

Computationally efficient, Hides input, collision resistant, looks random

400

This really famous old white guy just got his 3rd vaccine shot on live TV yesterday

President Biden

500

What is the highest number answer you could get with a modulus (clock size) of 23?

22

500

This cipher was considered unbreakable due to it's key mapping each letter in the plaintext to a different letter in a shifted alphabet

Vigenere Cipher

500

List 5 things made possible by public key encryption.

Answers vary

500

What is the name of the hash collision that Google Engineers created?

SHA-ttered

500

Which WWE superstar just had her first baby?

Ronda Rousey