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BCA 8th Semester
Information Security 2024 Board Question Paper - Tribhuvan University (TU) 2024

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Bachelor In Computer Application

Course Title: Information Security

Code No: CACS 459

Semester: VIII

Full Marks: 60 Pass Marks: 24 Time: 3 hours

Candidates are required to answer the question in their own words as far as possible.

Group B
Attempt any SIX question.
[6x5=30]
2.

What is security services? Explain four fundamental security design principle. [1+4]

3.

What do you mean by transportation cipher? Decrypt the cipher text UIESTNVRIY using the Rail fence cipher using rail size is 2. [2+3]

4.

What is Euler's totient function? Find multiplicative inverse of 87 in Z₁₀₀ using Extended Euclidean algorithm. [1+4]

5.

What is Abelian group? Find whether 561 is prime or not using Miller-Rabin algorithm. [2+3]

6.

What is Password aging? Explain process of biometric authentication. [1+4]

7.

What is malicious software? How worms are different from Trojan horses? [1+4]

8.

What is security Audit? Explain the architecture of security auditing. [1+4]

Group C

Attempt any TWO questions

[2x10=20]
9.

How key generation, encryption and decryption is done in RSA. In a RSA cryptosystem, given p=5 and q=19, determine private key, public key and perform encryption and decryption for the message m=4. [5+5]

10.

Explain properties of hash functions. How hash value is generated using SHA-1 algorithm, explain with suitable diagram. [3+7]

11.

What is difference between Access Control List (ACL) and Access Control Matrix (ACM)? Explain five services provided by PGP protocol to secure email. [5+5]