QuestionQ21

Information Security Concepts

Cryptography plays an important role in providing information security, trust, access control to resources, and electronic transactions. It is no longer confined to securing only military information. It has become one of the major components of an organization's security policy. What term is used in cryptography for the output produced after encrypting a message or data that can be read and understood without any special effort and must be transmitted to the recipient?

  • A Cipher text
  • B Output text
  • C Encrypted text
  • D Plain text
Explanation

Ciphertext is the output produced by encrypting plaintext. It is the encrypted form transmitted to the recipient and requires decryption to be understood.

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