Cryptography General Interview Questions
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What is a hash function? What is a message digest?

TCS,

659

What is the significance of one-way functions for cryptography?

TCS,

561

Which is easier, factoring or discrete log?

TCS,

567

Why use RSA rather than DES?

TCS,

606

What is SHS?

TCS,

598

Who are the escrow agencies?

TCS,

656

What is the RSA Factoring Challenge?

TCS,

674

Explain the meaning of Cryptography.

TCS,

680

What is a linear feedback shift register?

572

What is a birthday attack?

575

How is rsa used for authentication in practice? What are rsa digital signatures?

531

How do digital timestamps support digital signatures?

585

What are visual secret sharing schemes?

554

Can rsa be exported from the united states?

524

What is seal?

564


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What is RIPEM?

575


What are the prospects for a theoretical breakthrough in the discrete log problem ?

1485


What is primality testing ?

1472


What are RC2 and RC4?

559


What is NIST ?

1529






How can signatures remain valid beyond the expiration dates of their keys, or, How do you verify a 20-year-old signature?

547


What are covert channels ?

2176


What is S/MIME ?

1585


What is the GSS-API ?

2195


What key management issues are involved in public-key cryptography?

532


What are the most important attacks on MACs ?

1564


What are elliptic curves ?

1518


What is identification ?

2104


Who are the escrow agencies?

656


What are the advantages and disadvantages of public-key cryptography over secret-key cryptography?

536