Encryption

Question 1

Define cipher

Answer 1

Process of crypting or decrypting data

Question 2

Define plaintext

Answer 2

Data in human readable form

Question 3

Define ciphertext

Answer 3

Data that has been encrypted

Question 4

What is encryption

Answer 4

Using an algorithm to convert plaintext to ciphertext so only users with an encryption key have access to it

Question 5

What is transportation cipher

Answer 5

The letters of the message are transposed or rearranged according to a set pattern to form an anagram

Question 6

Why must you to rearrange letters according to a set pattern in transportation cipher

Answer 6

To make it possible to decrypt the message

Question 7

What is the railfence encryption method

Answer 7

The message is split across several lines

Question 8

What is the route cipher method

Answer 8

Putting a message into a grid