Test Your Security Knowledge

With the incredible Internet growth, businesses and consumers alike have changed the way they work and live. But with Internet advances come security concerns. Test your security savvy by matching these words with their correct definitions.

1. Complex Algorithms

2. Plaintext

3. Advanced Encryption Standard

4. Encryption

5. Social Security Numbers

6. Triple DES (Data Encryption Standard)

7. DES 

___ Internet information we don't want other people to see.

___ A federal information-processing standard that supports 128-, 192-, and 256-bit keys. It's part of the forthcoming 802.lli specification and has been approved by the U.S. government.

___The name of the Federal Information Processing Standard 46-3, which describes the data encryption algorithm.

___ Is more than three times as secure as DES.

___ Refers to the data to be encrypted.

___ Public keys generally use____  _____and very large hash values for encrypting, including 40-bit or even 128-bit numbers.

___ The conversion of data into a form (called a ciphertext) that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people.

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