Question

What are the differences between message confidentiality and message integrity? Can you have confidentiality without integrity? Can you have integrity without confidentiality? Justify your answer.

Answer 1

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message confidentiality

Two or more hosts communicate securely, typically using encryption. The communication cannot be monitored (sniffed) by non trusted hosts. The communication between trusted parties is confidential.

message integrity

The message transported has not been tampered with or altered. A message has integrity when the payload sent is the same as the payload received.

Sending a message confidentially does not guarantee data integrity. Even when two nodes have authenticated each other, the integrity of a message could be compromised during the transmission of a message.

Yes, you can have integrity of a message without confidentiality. One can take a hash or sum of the message on both sides to compare. Often we share downloadable files and provide data integrity using md5 hash sums.

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