Wgu C839 Intro To Cryptography (Eces), Study Guide Rated A+

Skipjack {Ans: Symmetric Key Algorithm, Developed by the NSA and reliant on the Clipper Chip. Uses an 80-bit key to encrypt or decrypt 64-bit data blocks. Unbalanced Feistel with 32 rounds.}Decoding {Ans: The reverse process from encoding}Cryptosystem {Ans: This represents the entire cryptographic operation. This includes the algorithm, key, and key management functions}Serpent {Ans: Block cipher of 128 bits and supports a key size of 128, 192 or 256 bits. 32 rounds. AES Finalist Symmetric}Avalanche {Ans: A small change yields large effects in the output. This is Feistel's varaiation on Shannon's concept of Diffusion. Ideally, a change in one bit in the plaintext would affect all the bits of the ciphertext. This would be a complete avalanche.}Asynchronous {Ans: Encrypt/Decrypt requests are processed in queues}