lab 6

Question 1

What is the bit length of an MD5 hash?

128
32
256
160
64

Answer 1

128

Question 2

What is the purpose of calculating a hash of files?

Maintaining availability
Confirming authorization
Detecting integrity violations
Blocking disclosure

Answer 2

Detecting integrity violations

Question 3

What is the benefit of salting password hashes?

Eases enrollment complexity
Increases resistance to brute force attack
Improves federation interoperability
Reduces up sign in time

Answer 3

Increases resistance to brute force attack

Question 4

What is the primary reason to avoid the use of MD5?

Risk of brute force attack
Propensity for collisions
Ease of key discovery
Its algorithm is publicly viewable

Answer 4

Propensity for collisions

Question 5

What is the benefit of performing a malware evaluation via a hash value rather than uploading a file?

Detecting new threats
Maintaining SCAP compliance
Not disclosing the suspect file publicly
More accurate results

Answer 5

Not disclosing the suspect file publicly

Question 6

If a portion of the scanning engines of an online threat analysis service detect a threat related to a submitted hash or file, is that suspicious object necessarily malicious?

True
False

Answer 6

True