Certified Ethical Hacker – CEH – 312-50 – Question342

PGP, SSL, and IKE are all examples of which type of cryptography?


A. Public Key
B. Secret Key
C. Hash Algorithm
D. Digest

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Public-key algorithms are fundamental security ingredients in cryptosystems, applications and protocols. They underpin various Internet standards, such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),Transport Layer Security (TLS), S/MIME, PGP, Internet Key Exchange (IKE or IKEv2), and GPG.

References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography