Bsc CSIT Semester 5 – Cryptography – Unit 4. Cryptographic Hash Functions and Digital Signatures
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Explain the process of generating message digests using MD4.
Explain the concept of digital signatures and differentiate between direct and arbitrated digital signatures.
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.
List the properties of hash function. Discuss the first pass of MD4.
Describe the properties of hash functions. Discuss how hash value is generated using SHA-1 algorithm.
What are the applications of hash functions? Discuss how SHA-1 algorithm generates hash value from a given message.
List the properties of hash function. Describe the algorithm for SHA-1.
Describe the working mechanism of digital signature algorithm.
How direct digital signature is different from arbitrated digital signature? How digital signature generation and verification is done using RSA.
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Explain the concept of digital signatures and differentiate between direct and arbitrated digital signatures.
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 us
List the properties of hash function. Discuss the first pass of MD4.
Describe the properties of hash functions. Discuss how hash value is generated using SHA-1 algorithm.
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