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InfoSec Exam Prep Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

My personal exam prep cheatsheet

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Block Ciphers

Encrypt plaintext of given size & key
Encryption algorithm for a block
Recover plaintext from encrypted word
Knowing if given encryption allows recovery of plaintext

SP-Boxes

Substi­tut­ion­-Pe­rmu­tation Box
Encrypt single block from final permut­ation

Elementary calcul­ation related to block ciphers

Assessing required resources for encryption method based on block ciphers
Calculate required size of lookup tables
Number of binary words of length n is 2n

Fiestel Encryption

What it is
How to