Questions:

1. What is information security?

2. What is computer security?
3. What is network security?
4. What is internet security?
5. Why internetwork security is is both fascinating and complex?
6. What is a security service?
7. What is security mechanism?
8. What is security attack?
9. List any four attacks in network communication.
10. What are the three aspects of information security?
11. What is the difference between threat and attack?
12. What is authentication?
13. What is peer entity authentication?
14. What is data origin authentication?
15. What is access control?
16. What is data confidentiality?
17. What is data integrity?
18. What is nonrepudiation?
19. What is passive attack? Give example.
20. What is active attack? Give example.
21. How will you classify security attacks?
22. List some security mechanism.
23. What are the types of threats?
24. What is meant by information access threats?
25. What is meant by service threats?
26. What are plain text and cipher text?
27. What is enciphering or encryption?
28. What is deciphering or decryption?
29. What is cryptography?
30. What is crypt-analysis?
31. What is cryptology?
32. What is symmetric encryption or conventional encryption or single key
encryption?
33. What are the ingredients of symmetric encryption?
34. List the disadvantages of symmetric ciphers.
35. What are the two requirements for secure use of conventional encryption?
36. What are the characteristic of cryptographic systems?
37. What is a block cipher?
38. What is a stream cipher?
39. What are the two general approaches to attacking a conventional encryption
scheme?
40. What is Brute-force attack?
41. When an encryption scheme is said to be unconditionally secure?
42. When an encryption scheme is said to be computationally secure?
43. What are the criteria for an encryption scheme?

44. What are the various substitution techniques used for encryption?
45. What is Caesar cipher?
46. What is monoalphabetic cipher?