Know your Clouds
History Buffs
Codecs and Protocols and whiskers on kittens..
Crypto Schmipto
Meeting Room Mastery
100
Headquartered in San Francisco, this cloud computing company is best known for it's CRM product, but has expanded into the Social Enterprise Arena through acquisitions.
What is Salesforce?
100
The first 'official' employee of CipherCloud, not including founder Pravin Kothari.
(2 possible answers) Varun Badhwar (Jan 2011) (first US) or Chakra (first in IDC)
100
What is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)?
100
A cryptography method in which both the sender and receiver share the same key
What is symmetric-key cryptography?
100
This Italian mathematician is considered by some "the most talented western mathematician of the Middle Ages." He is best remembered for a number sequence named after him.
Who was Leonardo Fibonacci?
200
A low-level cloud that can have noticeable vertical development and clearly defined edges. From the latin word 'Cumulo' meaning "heap" or "pile".
What is Cumulus?
200
The first million-dollar customer of CipherCloud
Who is Bank of America?
200
Based on the Rijndael cipher developed by two Belgian cryptographers, this standard is a family of ciphers with different key and block sizes.
What is Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)?
200
A simple cipher, which transposes the order of letters in a message (e.g., 'hello world' becomes 'ehlol owrdl' in a trivially-simple rearrangement scheme)
What is a transposition cipher?
200
A French philosopher and mathematician. Considered the father of analytical geometry, and was one of the key figures in the scientific revolution.
Who was Rene Descartes?
300
This cloud is a central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Often referred to as AWS (Amazon Web Services), this Cloud allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications.
What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)?
300
This piece of cooking equipment in the break area originally came from Varun's kitchen.
What is a Microwave Oven?
300
CipherCloud uses this codec to save space after encrypting cloud data by taking advantage of large number of characters in unicode range..
What is CJK codec?
300
Invented by the German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I, it is a electro-mechanical rotor cipher machine used in the 20th century for enciphering and deciphering secret messages.
What is an Enigma Machine?
300
An English mathematician, philosopher and logician, best known as the author of The Laws of Thought. Also the inventor of the prototype of what is now called Boolean logic, which became the basis of the modern digital computer.
Who was George Boole?
400
This cloud produces precipitation. Also a block cipher, invented by Alexis Machado in 2000. Also a popular model of flying broom used in Quiddich
What is Nimbus?
400
The first customer of CipherCloud. This customer paid, but never deployed the product
Who is Canadian National Democratic Party
400
An approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of curves over finite fields.
What is Elliptic curve cryptography?
400
One of the earliest practical examples of cryptographic key exchange..it allows two parties to jointly establish a shared secret key over an insecure communications channel. This key can then be used to encrypt subsequent communications using a symmetric key cipher.
What is Diffie–Hellman key exchange?
400
A Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry".
Who was Euclid?
500
A low-level cloud characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base, as opposed to convective or cumuliform clouds that are formed by rising thermals.
What is Cumulus?
500
The oldest customer of CipherCloud, that is still a customer
Who is Promontory Financial Group? (July 2011)
500
An encryption technique that cannot be cracked if used correctly. This combines a plaintext with a random secret key (or pad), which encrypts each bit with the corresponding bit from the pad. The random secret key is used just one time
What is a one-time pad (OTP)?
500
The cryptographic task of hiding messages in other messages, images, or files.
What is steganography?
500
A cloud with thin, wispy strands. Its name comes from the Latin word meaning a ringlet or curling lock of hair.
What is Stratus?