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    Scottish Church College

    Intermediate Examination (Internal Evaluation) 2020


    (Under University of Calcutta)
    Information Security
    Semester IV (Honours)
    CMSA
    Paper: SEC-B-1

    Time: 2 Hours Full Marks: 40

    Answer any 4 (four) questions.

    1. a. What is cryptanalysis and Brute-force Attack? [4]

    b. What are the basic components of computer security? [6]

    2. a. What is Snooping? How is it different from Spoofing? [6]

    b. What are the offences and penalties for section 66A and 66D under IT Act 2000? [4]

    3. a. Use the Polyalphabetic cipher to encrypt the plaintext “BRUTE force ATTACK” with initial
    key value as 10. Then decrypt the message to get the original plaintext. [6]

    b. Use the Additive cipher with k = 10 to encrypt the plaintext “Hello World”. Then decrypt
    the message to get the original plaintext. [4]

    4. a. What are the different authentication mechanisms to confirm a user’s identity? [4]

    b. How confidentiality and authentication are used in the same message in PGP? [6]

    5. Suppose Alice wants to send some secret message to Bob, how does she maintain the
    authentication and confidentiality? Use the conception of Public Key and Private Key. Draw
    the conception of Digital Signature from that. [10]

    6. a. What is the Hash function?

    b. Gmail and Facebook or any bank login required password, where the password gets
    saved and how the exact procedure is maintained? Is there any chance of losing your
    password through the organization? [5 + 5]

    Note: Candidates must send their scanned answer scripts in a single pdf format
    to the following mail id

    [email protected]

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