Silicon Institute of Technology

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7th Semester B.Tech. End Term Examination 2022-23

CRYPTOGRAPHY & NETWORK SECURITY(18CS2T36)
Duration: 03:00 Full Marks: 60

1 Answer All
a What do you mean by statistical attack? Give an example.
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b Differentiate between Block and Stream Cipher.
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c What is triple DES? What is its advantage over double DES?
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d Find the inverses of 3 and 4 in Z .
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e Find the value of Φ(242) with necessary steps.
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f What is elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP)?
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g How the receiver checks the integriety of a message before accepting it?
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h What is the message block size and digest size of MD5?
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What do you mean by digital signature? How to achieve it? 1
j What do you mean by a cipher suite? Give an example.
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2 Answer All
a Explain what is meant by transposition cipher with an example?
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b Find the multiplicative inverse of 38 in Z
180 using the Extended Euclidean Algorithm. 3
Show the steps.
c Explain the Diffie-Hellman symmetric key exchange with suitable diagram.
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d How nonrepudiation can be achieved with digital signature? Explain with a diagram.
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e Explain briefly about the significance of the S/MIME protocol and the encoding used to
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achieve it.
3 Answer any One
a 9 4 7
Encrypt the message "meet me today" using Hill cipher with the key [ ] . Then
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decrypt the ciphertext to show the plaintext. Show your calculations and result.
b Give the mathematical model of affine cipher. Using this cipher, encrypt the word
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"encryption" using the key (3,5).
4 Answer any One
a Solve the Bezout's identity s.a+t.b=gcd(a,b) by using Extended Euclidean Algorithm, where
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a=161 and b= 28. Show all the steps in detail by using a table.
b Draw a block diagram to show the general structure of AES. Explain the operations
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performed in each round.
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5 Answer any One
a Explain the procedure for key generation, encryption and decryption in RSA cryptosystem
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with an example.
b Using Chinese remainder theorem (CRT), find an integer that has a reminder of 2 when divided by 3,
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remainder of 3 when divided by 7 and remainder of 2 when divided by 5. Show the deailed steps.

6 Answer any One

a What is message authentication code (MAC)? What are the different methods of attcaks?
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Distinguish between Nested MAC and HMAC.
b What is the significance of one-way hash function in cryptography? Explain the working of
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SHA-512 with suitable diagram.
7 Answer any One
a What is the role of a certification authority? Explain the certificate format of X.509 for
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issuing the certificates.
b Explain the architecture of the PGP protocol to achieve authentication and confidentiality
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with a suitable diagram.