Gujarat Power Engineering and Research Institute

INFORMATION SECURITY
SUBJECT CODE: 160702
th
B.E. 6 SEM (COMPUTER ENGINEERING)

ASSIGNMENT-1

(1)Define the terms threat and attack. List and briefly define categories of security
attacks.

(2)List and briefly define the security services.

(3)What is cryptography? Write the differences between conventional encryption
and public key encryption.
(4) Define following terms:
a. Cryptanalyst
b. Cryptanalysis.
(5) Explain the various types of cryptanalytic attack, based on the amount of
information known to the cryptanalyst. (or What is the objective of attacking an
encryption system? Write the possible approaches to attack a conventional
encryption scheme.)
(6)Explain monoalphabetic cipher and polyalphabetic cipher by giving an Example
(7)Define the Caesar cipher.

(8) Is playfair cipher monoalphabetic cipher? Justify.

(i)Construct a playfair matrix with the key moonmission and encrypt the
message greet.
(ii)Construct a playfair matrix with the key occurrence. Generate the
cipher text for the
plaintext Tall trees.
(iii)Construct a Playfair matrix with the key engineering. And encrypt the
message test this process.

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(9) Encrypt the message Good morning using the Hill Cipher with the key

(10)Differentiate block ciphers and stream ciphers.

(11)Explain the terms diffusion and confusion.
(12)Define
Steganography
steganography.

and

explain

various

techniques

for

(13) Explain block cipher modes of operation?

(14) What is the purpose of S-boxes in DES? Explain the avalanche effect.
(15) Explain the fiestel structure of Blowfish.
(16) Describe the three operations used by International Data Encryption
Algorithm.
(17)Briefly explain the model of Asymmetric Cryptosystem.
(18) Write Diffie Hellman key exchange algorithm. Explain man-in-the middle
attack on this Diffie Hellman key exchange.
(19) (i) Write two properties of prime numbers.
(ii) Explain Eulers totient function.
(20)Calculate
(i)ciphertext in case of RSA if p=3,q=11,e=3,M=5.
(ii)In a public key system using RSA, the ciphertext intercepted is C=10
which is sent to the user whose public key is e=5, n=35. What is the
Plaintext M?
(21)Which cryptnalytic attack can occur on RSA algorithm?