Cryptography for Dummies

Prompts and answers

• What type of cryptography is more secure?
  asymmetric
• What type of cryptography is faster?
  symmetric
• What type of cryptography will a Bank site use?
  asymmetric
• What will you use to encrypt your messages in asymmetric cryptography?
  public key
• What will you use to decrypt messages in asymmetric cryptography?
  private key
• Does symmetric cryptography use two different keys for encryption/decryption? (aye/nay)
  nay
• What's the MD5 hash of "hashes are cool"?
  f762d32e3c160900d94b683e927555b9
• What does MD5 stand for?
  Message Digest 5
• Who created MD5?
  Ronald Rivest
• Encode the string "cryptographyisuseful" with Base64
  Y3J5cHRvZ3JhcGh5aXN1c2VmdWw=
• Decode the string "dGhlIHNlY3JldCB3b3JkIGlzIDogd2F0ZXJtZWxvbg==". What's the secret word?
  watermelon