Study Questions, due on October 1

• Its hard to say which topics are most important. There are definitely things that I understand above other things. I guess, for the purposes of this class, that the modes of attack would be the most important things to study. Knowing these helps us to foresee how someone might break our code and see our classified information that we're trying to communicate.
• Before the study guide came out I had no idea what to expect on the exam. To be honest, I still don't know what to expect. Once I get this first exam under my belt I think I'll have a better idea of how the exams will be formatted. But I think there will be a lot of theory on the exam, as far as encryption and decryption. It helps to have a study guide with most of the topics all in one place. With the guide and discussing it briefly in class, I have a better idea of what to study and go over.
• Before the exam I'm going to need to really study each method of encryption and its method of decryption. Those are the things that I haven't really practiced and I need to.