XenonStack Associate Security Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Cryptography is the practice of secure communication in the presence of third parties.

• It involves techniques for secure communication and data protection

• Uses mathematical algorithms to encrypt and decrypt data

• Examples include AES, RSA, and SHA

• Cryptography is used in various fields such as finance, military, and healthcare

Hashing is a one-way process of converting data into a fixed-length value while encryption is a two-way process of converting data into a coded message.

• Hashing is used for data integrity checks and password storage while encryption is used for secure transmission of data.

• Hashing is irreversible while encryption is reversible.

• Hashing algorithms include MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 while encryption algorithms include AES, RSA, DE...read more