CACS459 Information Security

Information Security TU Board 2024 question paper

10 questionsSit this paper (timed)

Tribhuvan University

Bachelor of Computer Application

Semester 8 · TU Board 2024

Course Title: Information Security (CACS459)

Full Marks: 60Pass Marks: 24Time: 3 hours

Candidates are required to answer the question in their own words as far as possible.

Group B

Attempt any SIX question.(6 × 5 = 30)

  1. 2.

    What is security services? Explain four fundamental security design principle. [1+4]

    5
  2. 3.

    What do you mean by transportation cipher? Decrypt the cipher text UIESTNVRIY using the Rail fence cipher using rail size is 2. [2+3]

    5
  3. 4.

    What is Euler's totient function? Find multiplicative inverse of 87 in Z₁₀₀ using Extended Euclidean algorithm. [1+4]

    5
  4. 5.

    What is Abelian group? Find whether 561 is prime or not using Miller-Rabin algorithm. [2+3]

    5
  5. 6.

    What is Password aging? Explain process of biometric authentication. [1+4]

    5
  6. 7.

    What is malicious software? How worms are different from Trojan horses? [1+4]

    5
  7. 8.

    What is security Audit? Explain the architecture of security auditing. [1+4]

    5

Group C

Attempt any TWO questions(2 × 10 = 20)

  1. 9.

    How key generation, encryption and decryption is done in RSA. In a RSA cryptosystem, given p=5 and q=19, determine private key, public key and perform encryption and decryption for the message m=4. [5+5]

    10
  2. 10.

    Explain properties of hash functions. How hash value is generated using SHA-1 algorithm, explain with suitable diagram. [3+7]

    10
  3. 11.

    What is difference between Access Control List (ACL) and Access Control Matrix (ACM)? Explain five services provided by PGP protocol to secure email. [5+5]

    10

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