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PartA Questions

1. Define security attack, security mechanism and security services. Security attack: any action that compromises the security of information owned by an organization. Security mechanism: a mechanism that is designed to detect, prevent or recover from a security attack. Security services: a service that enhances the security of the data processing systems and the information transfers of an organization. 2. Mention the different types of security services. Authentication Confidentiality Data integrity Non repudiation Access control Availability 3. Define passive attack and active attack. Passive attacks are in the nature of eavesdropping, or monitoring of transmissions. The types of passive attack are Release of message content Traffic analysis Active attacks involve some modification of data stream or creation of a false stream. The types of active attack are Masquerade Replay Modification Denial of service 4. Define cryptanalysis and cryptology. Cryptanalysis: techniques used for deciphering or decrypting a message without the knowledge of the enciphering or encrypting details is said to be cryptanalysis. Cryptology: the study of cryptography and cryptanalysis together is called cryptology. 5. Define the following terms: Plaintext: the original message to be transmitted. Cipher text: the coded (encrypted) message or the scrambled message. Encryption / Enciphering : process of converting plain text to cipher text. Decryption/ Deciphering: process of converting cipher text to plain text.

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6. What is Brute force attack? Trying out all the possible keys on a piece of cipher text until an intelligible translation to plain text is obtained. 7. Mention the various types of cryptanalytic attack. Known plaintext Cipher text only Chosen plaintext Chosen Cipher text 8. Define the two basic building blocks of encryption techniques. Substitution technique it is one in which the letters of the plaintext are replaced by other letters or by numbers or symbols. Transposition technique it is one which performs some sort of permutation on the plaintext letters. 9. Mention few mono-alphabetic and poly-alphabetic ciphers. Mono-alphabetic ciphers: - playfair cipher, hill cipher, Caesar cipher Poly-alphabetic ciphers: - vigenere cipher, one time pad cipher 10. What is steganography? Mention few techniques in it. Steganography is a technique for hiding the original message. Some of the related techniques are Character marking Invisible ink Pin punctures Typewriter correction ribbon 11. Mention the functions involved in simplified DES. Initial permutation A complex function Fk with a key k1 Switching A complex function Fk with a key k2 Inverse permutation 12. Define stream cipher and block cipher. A stream cipher is one that encrypts a digital data stream one bit or one byte at a time. A block cipher is one in which a block of plaintext is treated as a whole and used to produce a cipher text block of equal block. 13. Define symmetric key cryptography and public key cryptography. In symmetric key cryptography, only one key is used for encryption and decryption.

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In public key cryptography, two keys (public key and private key) are used. When one key is used for encryption, then the other must be used for decryption. The public key is known to all the participants but the private key is kept secret by the owner. 14. List out the applications of the public key cryptosystems. Encryption / decryption Digital signature Key exchange 15. Define Eulers totient function (used in RSA algorithm). It is the number of positive integers that are less than n and relatively prime to n. Where n is the product of two prime numbers (p & q) It is represented as (n) and it is expressed as (n) = (pq) = (p-1)(q-1). 16. What are the various approaches to attacks the RSA algorithm? Brute force attack Mathematical attacks Timing attacks 17. List out the different techniques of distributing the public key. Public announcement Publicly available directory Public key authority Public key certificate 18. Why do we need Diffie Hellman algorithm? It is used for exchanging the secret keys between the sender and the receiver. It allows two users to exchange a key securely. 19. What are the attacks that can be performed in the networks? Disclosure Traffic analysis Masquerade Content modification Sequence modification Timing modification Source repudiation Destination repudiation 20. Mention the various ways of producing an authenticator. Message encryption Message Authentication Code (MAC) Hash function

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21. Differentiate Message Authentication Code and Hash function. In MAC, a public function of the message and a secret key are used to produce a fixed length authenticator. A hash function accepts a variable size message as input and produces a fixed size output (hash code) which is similar to MAC. But hash code does not use a key. 22. Define one way property, weak collision resistance and strong collision resistance of hash function. For any given value h, it is computationally infeasible to find x such that H(x) = h one way property. For any given block x, it is computationally infeasible to find y x with H(y) = H(x) weak collision resistance. It is computationally infeasible to find any pair (x, y) such that H(x) = H(y) strong collision property. 23. Define Kerberos. Kerberos is a centralized authentication server whose function is to authenticate users to servers and servers to users. 24. List out the requirements for Kerberos. Secure Reliable Transparent Scalable 25. Mention the limitations of version 4 of Kerberos. a. Environmental shortcomings i. Encryption system dependence ii. Internet protocol dependence iii. Message byte ordering iv. Ticket lifetime v. Inter realm authentication b. Technical deficiencies i. double encryption ii. propagating block chaining encryption iii. session keys iv. password attacks 26. Mention the services provided by the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). a. Authentication b. Confidentiality c. Compression d. E-mail compatibility e. Segmentation and reassembly

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27. Signature is generated before compression in PGP. Why? There are two reasons behind it. It is preferable to sign an uncompressed message so that one can store only the uncompressed message together with the signature for future verification. If one signed a compressed document, then it would be necessary either to store a compressed version of the message for later verification or to recompress the message when verification is required. Even if one were willing to generate dynamically a recompressed message for verification, PGPs compression algorithm presents a difficulty. The algorithm is not deterministic. 28. How E-mail compatibility is performed? Radix-64 is the technique which is used for E-mail compatibility. In Radix-64, each group of 3 octets of binary data is mapped into 4 ASCII characters. 29. What is the need of public key ring and private key ring? Public key ring is one of the data structures which is used to store the public keys of the other participants Private Key ring is a data structure which is used to store the public and the private keys of the owner alone.

30. Mention the benefits of IPSec. a. It provides strong security that can be applied to all traffic crossing the perimeter. b. IPSec in a firewall is resistant to bypass. c. IPSec is below the transport layer and so is transparent to applications. d. IPSec is transparent to users. 31. List out the services provided by the IPSec. a. Access control b. Connectionless integrity c. Data origin authentication d. Rejection of replayed packets e. Confidentiality f. Limited traffic flow confidentiality 32. Name the protocols that provide security in IPSec. a. Authentication header b. Encapsulating security payload 33. What is security association? i. It is a one way relationship between a sender and a receiver that affords security services to the traffic carried on it.

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34. Define transport and tunnel mode. i. Transport mode provides protection primarily for upper layer protocols. Transport mode protection extends to the payload of an IP packet. Transport mode is used for end-to-end communication between two hosts. ii. Tunnel mode provides protection to the entire packet. The entire packet (original packet) plus security fields is treated as the payload of new outer IP packet with a new outer IP header. Here the packet travels through a tunnel from one point of an IP network to another. 35. Why d o we need an anti replay service? i. Anti replay service is required in order to avoid the duplicate packets (created by the opponent) which may cause disruption in the service.

36. What is the need pf padding in Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)? a. If an encryption algorithm requires the plaintext to be a multiple of some number of bytes, the padding field is used to expand the plaintext to the required length. b. ESP format requires that the pad length and the next header fields be right aligned within a 32-bit word. The padding field is used to assure this alignment. c. Additional padding may be added to provide partial traffic flow confidentiality by concealing the actual length of the payload. 37. How the security associations be combined? i. It can be done in two ways: transport adjacency iterated tunneling 38. Define the terms: connection and session i. A connection is a transport that provides a suitable type of service. Every connection is associated with one session. ii. A session is an association between a client and a server. One session may have multiple connections. 39. What is the use of the change cipher spec protocol? i. This protocol consists of a single message which consists of a single byte with a value 1. The sole purpose of this message is to cause the pending state to be copied into the current state, which

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updates the cipher suite (cryptographic algorithm) to be used on the connection. 40. Mention the phases of the Handshake protocol. a. Phase 1 establish security capabilities b. Phase 2 server authentication and key exchange c. Phase 3 client authentication and key exchange d. Phase 4 finish 41. What is the need of Dual signature? i. The purpose of the dual signature is to link two messages that are intended for two different participants. ii. e.g., DS =EKRC [H(H(PI) || H(OI))] where DS Dual signature iii. EKRC Encryption using the private key of the card holder (sender) iv. H Hash function v. PI payment information vi. OI order information 42. Classify the intruders. a. Masquerader b. Misfeasor c. Clandestine user 43. How the password files be protected? The password files can be protected in one of the two ways: one way encryption access control 44. Define firewall. i. Firewall is the in which protects the premises network from internet based attacks and to provide a single choke point where security and audit can be imposed. 45. What are the design goals of the firewall. a. All traffic from inside to outside, and vice versa, must pass through the firewall. b. Only authorized traffic, as defined by the local security policy, will be allowed to pass. c. It is immune to penetration. 46. List out the limitations of the firewall. a. It cannot protect against attacks that bypass the firewall. b. The firewall does not protect against internal threats. c. It cannot protect against the transfer of virus infected programs or files.

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47. What are the types of firewall? a. Packet filtering firewall b. Application level gateway c. Circuit level gateway 48. Define Basiton host. i. A Basiton host is a system identified by the firewall administrator as a critical strong point in the network security. 49. List out the firewall configurations. a. Screened host firewall, single homed bastion b. Screened host firewall, dual homed bastion c. Screened subnet firewall

50. Define the two rules for multi-level security. a. No read up a subject can only read on object of less or equal security level. This is referred to as simple security property. b. No write down a subject can only write into an object of greater or equal security level. This is referred to as * property. 51. Define Torjan horse attack. i. The Torjan horse attack begins with a hostile user, named X, gain legitimate access into the system and installs both the torjan horse program and a private file to be used in the attack as a back packet. X gives read / write permission to itself and gives Y (authorized user) write-only permission. X now indicates Y to invoke torjan horse program, by advertising it as a useful utility. When the program detects that it is being executed by Y, it reads the sensitive character string from Ys file and copies it into Xs back pocket file. PartB Questions 1. Briefly describe the security services. (8) 2. Explain classical encryption techniques(Steps involved in each encryption technique like Caesar cipher, playfair cipher, hill cipher, vigenere cipher, one time pad cipher, rail fence, etc) 3. Explain about steganography,transposition cipher. 4. Describe the key generation of DES and encryption algorithm(8/16) 5. Explain the various types of cryptographic functions with an example. 6. Explain AES structure 7. Describe the encryption / decryption of Simplified DES /DES (16) 8. RSA algorithm and test for primality (8/16)

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9. Explain Elliptic curve cryptography . Explain about the modular arithmetic ,its properties and their uses in cryptographic techniques. 10. Explain the symmetric key cryptography and asymmetric key cryptography with an example. 11. Explain the various ways of distributing the public keys. (key management) (16) 12. Explain the various methods of producing an authenticaton. (16) 13. Write a note on hash function 14. Explain the requirements of digital signatures and also discuss how problems related to digital signaturea are taken care by an arbiter? 15. State the need for authentication protocols and explain any three of them 16. Describe MD5. Compare it with MD4 17. Describe SHA-1 18. Describe RIPEMD/ HMAC algorithms 19. Differentiate version 4 and version 5 of Kerberos. Explain the concept of Realm in kerbero 20. Describe about IP-Security 21. Describe Kerberos version 4. (16) 22. Describe the services provided by the PGP. (16) 23. Explain in detail, the Handshake protocol in secure socket layer. (16) 24. Differentiate SSL & TLS. (8) 25. Describe in detail, the payment processing of SET. (16) 26. Explain in detail the transport layer security protocol in detail. (16). 27. Briefly discuss about e-mail security 28. Explain the various types of firewall. (16) 29. Explain the different firewall configuration. (8) 30. Describe the various ways of combining the security associations. (8) 31. What is the role of Baston host in firewalls? 32. Explain the intrusion detection mechanism 33. Explain the cincept of password protection system

. (a) (i) Explain RSA algorithm with an example. (ii) Write short notes on PEM and PGP.

(8) (8)

OR (b) (i) How does a client C communicate with a server S using Kerberos protocol?Explain. (ii) What are different types of digital certificate? Explain. (6) (10)

14. (a) (i) Explain the architecture of secure socket layer. (ii) State and explain different types of firewall mechanisms available

(4) .(12)

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. (a) Draw the block diagram of single round of DES algorithm and explain the processing carried out in each block. (16) OR (b) Describe the RSA algorithm and its key generation, encryption and decryption operations. (16) 15. (a) What are the capabilities, limitations and design goals of firewalls? OR (b) (i) What are the three types of approaches to providing web security? (9) (16)

(ii) How does IPsec impact the routing architecture required for internet working? (7) . (a) (i) Explain the conventional encryption process. (8) (ii) State and explain the different approaches to message authentication. (3) (iii) What are the requirements of public key cryptography? (5) OR

(b) (i) Why is PGP popular? Explain the services offered by PGP. (ii) How the RSA algorithm generates key? (iii) Explain the authentication dialogue in Kerberos.

(8) (4) (4)

14. (a) (i) What are the limitations of firewalls? Explain. (6) (ii) Person A wants to send a confidential e-mail M to person B. How? (10) OR (b) (i) How does SSL work? Explain. (ii) Write an algorithm for sequence of events for transactions. (10) (6)

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