Chapter 8Cryptography
THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA SECURITY+ EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
1.2 Compare and contrast types of attacks.
- Cryptographic attacks: Birthday; Known plain text/cipher text; Rainbow tables; Dictionary; Brute force—Online vs. offline—Collision; Downgrade; Replay; Weak implementations
- 6.1 Compare and contrast basic concepts of cryptography.
- Symmetric algorithms
- Modes of operation
- Asymmetric algorithms
- Hashing
- Salt, IV, nonce
- Elliptic curve
- Weak/deprecated algorithms
- Key exchange
- Digital signatures
- Diffusion ...
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