CSC316 Cryptography

Cryptography TU Board 2078 question paper

12 questionsSit this paper (timed)

Tribhuvan University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Technology

Semester 5 · TU Board 2078

Course Title: Cryptography (CSC316)

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

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable. The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Group A

Attempt Any Two Questions(2 × 10 = 20)

  1. 1.

    Define CIA triad. State the encryption process of double and triple DES. What is the task of S-Box in DES ? Discuss with an example.

    10
  2. 2.

    Explain the generic model of digital signature process. Consider the two prime numbers 7 and 19. Select 29 as public key and 41 as private key. Encrypt the plaintext 4 and decrypt the cipher text 3 using RSA.

    10
  3. 3.

    Define Galois field with an example. Explain any two modes of block cipher encryption. Deterimine the quadratic residues of 7.

    10

Group B

Attempt Eight Questions(8 × 5 = 40)

  1. 4.

    What does intrusion mean? How the system detect intrusion? List any four types of firewall.

    5
  2. 5.

    Decrypt the message "GVPJ" using Hill cipher taking the key as {Row1 = 3 7, Row2 = 5 12}.

    5
  3. 6.

    Describe the PKI trust model.

    5
  4. 7.

    Define authentication system. Illustrate the need of mutual authentication over one way authentication with an example.

    5
  5. 8.

    Find the value of 7^2019 MOD 13 using Fermat's Little theorem. Define Euler totient function with
    an example.

    5
  6. 9.

    List the properties of hash function. Discuss the first pass of MD4.

    5
  7. 10.

    Differentiate between Symmetric and Asymmetric cipher. Encrypt the message "HELL" using
    the key "FAIL" using Vernanm cipher.

    5
  8. 11.

    Divide 3x^2 + 4x +3 by 5x +6 over GF(7).

    5
  9. 12.

    Define SSL protocol. Mention the services provided by PGP.

    5

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