ISC2 ISSAP Exam - Topic 6 Question 16 Discussion

for signing as well as encryption, and one of the first great advances in public key cryptography. RSA is widely used in electronic commerce

protocols, and is believed to be secure given sufficiently long keys and the use of up-to-date implementations.

Answer option B is incorrect. Message Digest 5 (MD5) is a cryptographic hash function designed by Ron Rivest. As an Internet standard (RFC

1321), MD5 has been employed in a wide variety of security applications, and is also commonly used to check the integrity of files.

Answer option A is incorrect. SHA-1 produces a 160-bit digest from a message with a maximum length of (264 - 1) bits. SHA-1 is based on

principles similar to those used by Ronald L. Rivest of MIT in the design of the MD4 and MD5 message digest algorithms, but has a more

conservative design.

Answer option C is incorrect. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an encryption standard adopted by the U.S. government. The

standard comprises three block ciphers, AES-128, AES-192, and AES-256. Each AES cipher has a 128-bit block size, with key sizes of 128, 192,

and 256 bits, respectively. The AES ciphers have been analyzed extensively and are now used worldwide, as was the case with its

predecessor, the Data Encryption Standard (DES).