Key Terms

Before you take the exam, be certain you are familiar with the following terms

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)	latency
asymmetric algorithms	local registration authority (LRA)
birthday attacks	mathematical attacks
Blowfish	message authentication code (MAC)
brute force attacks	message digest
CAST	Message Digest Algorithm (MDA)
certificate authority (CA)	one-time pads
certificate policies	out-of-band method
certificate practice statement (CPS)	private key
certificate revocation	public key
certificate revocation list (CRL)	Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
certificates	public-key system
cleartext	quantum cryptography
cryptanalysts	registration authority (RA)
cryptographers	repository
cryptographic algorithms	RSA
cryptography	Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)
Diffie-Hellman	steganography
digital signature	strength
Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (ECC)	strong
hash value	Triple-DES (3DES)
hashing	weak key attacks
International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA)	work factor