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    GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE-RAJKOT

    COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT


    Subject: Information Security (3170720)
    Question Bank

    3 or 4 Marks Question

    1. What are the types of attacks on encrypted message?


    2. What is cryptanalysis and cryptography?
    3. What are the key principles of security?
    4. How does simple columnar transposition work?
    5. What is avalanche effect?
    6. Define threat and attack.
    7. Give any four names of substitution techniques.
    8. Specify the four categories of security threads.
    9. Compare stream cipher and block cipher with example.
    10. How many keys are required for two people to communicate via a cipher?
    11. What are the two approaches to attacking a cipher?
    12. Compare Substitution and Transposition techniques.
    13. Define Euler’s totient function or phi function and their applications.
    14. Define Euler’s theorem and it’s application.
    15. What is the difference between diffusion and confusion?
    16. What is the advantage and disadvantage of one time pad encryption algorithm?
    17. Find gcd (56, 86) using Euclid’s algorithm.
    18. Perform encryption and decryption using RSA Algorithm. for the following.
    19. P=7; q=11; e=17; M=8.
    20. What is the purpose of the Sub Bytes?
    21. What is the difference between Sub Bytes and Sub Word?
    22. Mention any one technique of attacking RSA.
    23. List four general characteristics of schema for the distribution of the public key.
    24. What is the purpose of the S-boxes in DES?
    25. What primitive operation is used in RC4?
    26. What is the role of session key in public key schemes?
    27. What is the purpose of the State array?
    28. How is the S-box constructed?
    29. If a bit error occurs in plain text block b1, how far does the error propagate in CBC
    mode of DES.?
    30. User A and B exchange the key using Diffie-Hellman algorithm. Assume α=5 q=11
    XA=2 XB=3. Find the value of YA, YB and k.
    31. What are the properties a digital signature should have?
    32. What is masquerading?
    33. Define weak collision property of a hash function.
    34. Why is SHA more secure than MD5?
    35. Mention the fundamental idea of HMAC.
    36. Define the one way property to be possessed by any hash function.
    37. What are the functions used to produce an authenticator?
    38. List the properties a digital signature should possess.
    39. What do you meant by hash function?
    40. Differentiate MAC and Hash function.
    41. List any three hash algorithm.
    42. What are the requirements of the hash function?
    43. What is the role of compression function in hash function?
    44. Distinguish between direct and arbitrated digital signature?
    45. What is Birthday attack?

    7 Marks Question
    1. Discuss any four Substitution Technique and list their merits and demerits.
    2. Explain in detail Transposition Technique.
    3. Encrypt the message “GTU Examination” using the Hill cipher algorithm with the key
    matrix [
    5 17
    4 15 ]
    . Show your calculations and the result.

    4. Briefly explain the design principles of block cipher


    5. Discuss in detail block cipher modes of operation
    6. Identify the possible threats for RSA algorithm and list their counter measures
    7. Perform decryption and encryption using RSA algorithm with p=3, q=11, e=7 and
    N=5
    8. Draw the general structure of DES and explain the encryption decryption process.
    9. Mention the strengths and weakness of DES algorithm
    10. In AES, how the encryption key is expanded to produce keys for the 10 rounds
    11. Briefly explain Deffie Hellman key exchange with an example.
    12. W rite and explain the digital signature algorithm
    13. Explain in detail Hash Functions.
    14. Discuss about the objectives of HMAC and it security features.
    15. Users A and B use the Diffie Hellman key exchange technique, a common prime
    q=11 and a primitive root alpha=7.
    (i) If user A has private key XA=3.What is A’s public key YA?
    (ii) If user B has private key XB=6 What is B’s public key YB?
    16. Discuss clearly Secure Hash Algorithm(SHA)

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