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Week 4 Practice Quiz

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  1. 1With the invention of _________________________, it became possible for every man, woman, and child to transmit credit card numbers to Amazon more securely than any general had been able to communicate military orders fifty years earlier, orders on which the fate of nations depended.

    1. Aclose-key cryptography
    2. Bopen-key cryptography
    3. Cpublic-key cryptography
    4. Dprivate-key cryptography
  2. 2You were given an example to work through in this section. Parts of this manual, which was entitled The Equatorie of the Planetis, were written in a ________________.

    1. Asubstitution text
    2. Bsubstitution cipher
    3. Csubstitution letters
    4. Dsubstitution characters
  3. 3The technique used to crack the code is ___________________.

    1. Afrequency analysis
    2. Bfrequency thoughts
    3. Cfrequency problem
    4. Dfrequency math
  4. 4 In the late twentieth century, ________________ changed drastically because of modern computer technology, but these lessons are still true today.

    1. Aprogramming
    2. Bsoftware
    3. Chardware
    4. Dcryptography
  5. 5 Only_______________had the where withal to assure the production, protection, and distribution of the keys on which secret communication depended.

    1. Agovernments
    2. Bindividuals
    3. Cfamilies
    4. Dchildren
  6. 6No one has proved ________________ that the public-key encryption algorithms are unbreakable, in spite of determined efforts by top computer scientists to provide absolute proof of their security.

    1. Adefinitely
    2. Bmathematically
    3. Cfinite
    4. Dabsolute
  7. 7In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the ________ and the Clinton administrations were floating proposals to control the spread of cryptographic systems.

    1. ABush
    2. BReagan
    3. CCarter
    4. DFord
  8. 8_______________ was a journeyman programmer and civil libertarian who had been interested in cryptography since his youth.

    1. AAdleman
    2. BClipper
    3. CZimmermann
    4. DClinton
  9. 9Who started the company Napster?

    1. AMichael Dell
    2. BBill Gates
    3. CSean Fanning
    4. DSteve Jobs
  10. 10Which of the following companies did not get sued in October 2001, by the RIAA?

    1. ANapster
    2. BGrokster
    3. CMorpheus
    4. DKazaa

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CPSI 4123 Quiz on Week 4 Practice Quiz, created by Adam Peterson on 06/11/2018.
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