Question

A general property of a good encryption is good encryptions are easy to encrypt but very hard to decrypt. (2 points)
• True
• False
The word hashing literally means to scramble. (2 points)
• True
• False

Answer 1

1. **True** - A general property of good encryption is that it should be easy to encrypt but very hard to decrypt without the proper key.

2. **False** - The word "hashing" does not literally mean to scramble. Hashing refers to the process of converting input data (or a message) into a fixed-size string of characters, which is typically a digest that represents the original data in a unique manner. While it may seem similar to scrambling in a loose sense, hashing is a specific mathematical process that produces a deterministic output for given input.