{"id":727,"date":"2021-01-17T05:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp-question0719\/"},"modified":"2021-01-17T05:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T05:44:36","slug":"systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp-question0719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp-question0719\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems Security Certified Practitioner &#8211; SSCP &#8211; Question0719"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">Which of the following algorithms does NOT provide hashing? <br \/><strong><br \/>A.<\/strong> SHA-1<br \/><strong>B.<\/strong> MD2<br \/><strong>C.<\/strong> RC4<br \/><strong>D.<\/strong> MD5<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<style> .hidden-div{ display:none } <\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'block'\"> Show Answer <\/button> <button onclick=\"getElementById('hidden-div').style.display = 'none'\">Hide Answer<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden-div\" id=\"hidden-div\"><span style=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">Correct Answer: <strong>C<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"explanation\">\nAs it is an algorithm used for encryption and does not provide hashing functions , it is also commonly implemented &#8216; Stream Ciphers &#8216;.<br \/>\nThe other answers are incorrect because : SHA-1 was designed by NIST and NSA to be used with the Digital Signature Standard (DSS). SHA was designed to be used in digital signatures and was developed when a more secure hashing algorithm was required for U.S. government applications.<br \/>\nMD2 is a one-way hash function designed by Ron Rivest that creates a 128-bit message digest value. It is not necessarily any weaker than the other algorithms in the &#8220;MD&#8221; family, but it is much slower.<br \/>\nMD5 was also created by Ron Rivest and is the newer version of MD4. It still produces a 128-bit hash, but the algorithm is more complex, which makes it harder to break.<br \/>\nReference : Shon Harris , AIO v3 , Chapter -8 : Cryptography , Page : 644 -645<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the following algorithms does NOT provide hashing? A. SHA-1B. MD2C. RC4D. MD5 Show Answer Hide Answer Correct Answer: C Explanation: As it is an algorithm used for encryption and does not provide hashing functions , it is also commonly implemented &#8216; Stream Ciphers &#8216;. The other answers are incorrect because : SHA-1 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1078,722,3],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp","tag-choices","tag-question-0719","tag-systems-security-certified-practitioner-sscp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exampracticetests.com\/ISC\/SSCP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}