UGC NET CSE | June 2008 | Part 2 | Question: 29

Question

An example of a public key encryption algorithm is :

• A. Caesar cipher algorithm
• B. DES algorithm
• C. AES algorithm
• D. Knapsack algorithm

   

Answer 1

D is the answer

The First General Public-Key Algorithm used what we call the Knapsack Algorithm. Although we now know that this algorithm is not secure we can use it to look at how these types of encryption mechanisms work.

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