Cyber Security encryption to Secure Digital Systems Flashcards
1
Q
What is Obfuscation?
A
Obscuring communication, to make the message harder to understand.
2
Q
What is The code obfuscation?
A
Hiding a program’s implementation details from an attacker.
3
Q
What is synchronous data encryption?
A
Numeric keys encrypt the data. Decrypt using key
4
Q
What is Public key encryption?
A
A private and public key can encrypt the data, but only the private key can decrypt
5
Q
Why is encryption used?
A
Prevents confidential data from being read by unauthorised hackers
6
Q
What is the transposition method of encryption?
A
characters switched around
7
Q
What is the Substitution method of encryption?
A
characters replaced by other characters
