Question

Davos has been reading about encryption recently. He begins to wonder how anything can be secure if everyone is using the same set of algorithms. After all, anyone using the same algorithm would be able to decrypt anything that had been encrypted using that algorithm. Which of the following helps make the data unusable by anyone else using that same encryption scheme without having this information?
a. Algorithm
b. Cipher
c. Key
d. Block

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is B. Cipher.

Explanation:

Cipher is a system of reversible transformations that depends on some secret parameter, called key, and is designed to ensure the secrecy of transmitted information.

The cipher can be a combination of conventional characters or an algorithm for converting ordinary numbers and letters. The process of making a message secret with a cipher is called encryption. An important parameter of any cipher is the key - a parameter of the cryptographic algorithm, which ensures the selection of one transformation from the set of transformations possible for this algorithm. In modern cryptography, it is assumed that all the secrecy of a cryptographic algorithm is concentrated in the key.