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NTC PS04EMTH59 (09-04-2024)
Question 1. Which of the following is Caesar cipher of the plaintext “tuesday”?     .
i)
XYIWHED
ii)
DEODNKI
iii)
YZJXIFE
iv)
YZJXIFD

Question 2. If ordp(2024) = ordq(2024), then primes p and q cannot be     .
i)
7 and 13
ii)
11 and 23
iii)
2 and 23
iv)
none of these

Question 3. A square root of 2 modulo 23 is     .
i)
21
ii)
4
iii)
18
iv)
doesn’t exists

Question 4. If 3 and 4 are secret keys of Alice and Bob respectively with public parameters g = 5 and prime p = 23, then their shared Diffie-Hellman key is     .
i)
4
ii)
10
iii)
18
iv)
none of these

Question 5. Which of the following is a Carmichael number?
i)
516
ii)
561
iii)
651
iv)
615

Question 6. The decryption exponent of the RSA PKC with the encryption exponent 13 and the modulus 253 is     .
i)
17
ii)
49
iii)
39
iv)
none of these

Question 7. The trace of Frobenius for the elliptic curve E : y2 = x3 x + 2 over 𝔽3 is     .
i)
0
ii)
1
iii)
2
iv)
3

Question 8. Let E : y2 = x3 + 3x. Then the discriminant of the elliptic curve E and     is same.
i)
y2 = x3 + x + 1
ii)
y2 = x3 + 3x + 2
iii)
y2 = x3 + 2
iv)
none of these