Cryptography is defined as: (2 points)

Question

• Sensitive information sent over networks that needs to be secured.
• Verified authority to view information, such as a password or key.
• The practice of encoding information so only authorized people can read it.
• The act of stealing personal information online.
In order to decrypt an encrypted message, pass the encrypted message and the
_ to the decrypt function. (2 points)
• key
• cryptology
• decrypted message
• cipertext
Hash functions got the name "hash"
because it's easy to compute the function
with a given input, but nearly impossible to reverse engineer the hash function to get the original input. (2 points)
• True
• False

Answer 1

1. Cryptography is defined as:
   • The practice of encoding information so only authorized people can read it.

2. In order to decrypt an encrypted message, pass the encrypted message and the
   • key
   to the decrypt function.

3. Hash functions got the name "hash" because it's easy to compute the function with a given input, but nearly impossible to reverse engineer the hash function to get the original input.
   • True