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Encryption Quiz

Authored by Timothy Eleinko

Computers

10th Grade

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Encryption Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

During a coding competition, Abigail and Elijah both submitted their solutions. What is it called when their solutions produce the same hash value?

Mathematical Error

Overflow

Race Condition

Collision

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the Birthday problem?

Considers the probability that in a set of N randomly chosen people, two people will have the same birthday

Considers the probability that in a set of N randomly chosen people, another person will share your birthday

Considers the probability that in a set of N uniformly chosen people, two people will have the same birthday

Considers the probability that in a set of N randomly chosen people, 50% of the people will have the same birthday

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How are passwords typically stored within a database?

Hashed

Encrypted

Encoded

In Binary Format

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How many characters long are MD5 hashes?

16

32

64

128

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Benjamin is trying to access a secure online account. What is a brute force attack?

Physically breaking into a secure repository to steal information

Attempting to randomly guess based on some probability what the right answer would be

Trying all possible combinations and permutations until the right guess works

Use a logarithmic algorithm to reduce the numbers of potential guesses before selecting from the options available

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which hashing algorithm was first published in 1992 and had collisions verified in 1996?

MD1

MD3

MD5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

One way to help strengthen a hashed password to ______.

Use multiple passwords

Salt the password

Save passwords in a file

Encrypt passwords

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