1. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Choice C represents the organizational risk that the honeypot could be used as a point of access to launch further attacks on the enterprise's systems. Choices A and B are purposes for deploying a honeypot, not a concern. Choice D, the risk that the honeypot would be subject to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, is not relevant, as the honeypot is not a critical device for providing service.
2. Right Answer: B
Explanation: SSID broadcasting allows a user to browse for available wireless networks and to access them without authorization. Choices A, C and D are used to strengthen a wireless network.
3. Right Answer: C
Explanation: To ensure authenticity and confidentiality, a message must be encrypted twice: first with the sender's private key, and then with the receiver's public key. The receiver can decrypt the message, thus ensuring confidentiality of the message. Thereafter, the decrypted message can be decrypted with the public key of the sender, ensuring authenticity of the message. Encrypting the message with the sender's private key enables anyone to decrypt it.
4. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Public key (asymmetric) cryptographic systems require larger keys (1,024 bits) and involve intensive and time-consuming computations. In comparison, symmetric encryption is considerably faster, yet relies on the security of the process for exchanging the secret key. To enjoy the benefits of both systems, a symmetric session key is exchanged using public key methods, after which it serves as the secret key for encrypting/decrypting messages sent between two parties.
5. Right Answer: B
Explanation: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a public algorithm that supports keys from 128 to 256 bits in size, not only provides good security, but provides speed and versatility across a variety of computer platforms. AES runs securely and efficiently on large computers, desktop computers and even small devices such as smart cards. DES is not considered a strong cryptographic solution since its entire key space can be brute forced by large computer systems within a relatively short period of time. Triple DES can take up to three times longer than DES to perform encryption and decryption. RSA keys are large numbers that are suitable only for short messages, such as the creation of a digital signature.
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