This is a trial and error method used to decode encrypted data through exhaustive effort rather than employing intellectual strategies.

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• This is an assault on the integrity of a security system in which the attacker substitutes a section of cipher text (encrypted text) with a different section that looks like (but is not the same as) the one removed.
• This enables users of a basically unsecure public network such as the Internet to securely and privately exchange data and money through the use of a public and a private cryptographic key pair that is obtained and shared through a trusted authority.
• Which of the following is true of improper error handling?
• This type of attack may cause additional damage by sending data containing codes designed to trigger specific actions - for example, changing data or disclosing confidential information.
• In password protection, this is a random string of data used to modify a password hash.
• Developed by Philip R. Zimmermann, this is the most widely used privacy-ensuring program by individuals and is also used by many corporations.
• This is the encryption algorithm that will begin to supplant the Data Encryption Standard (DES) - and later Triple DES - over the next few years as the new standard encryption algorithm.
• This is the forging of an e-mail header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source.
• In which of the following exploits does an attacker add SQL code to a Web form input box to gain access to resources or make changes to data?
• This is a program in which harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data.