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A Trojan horse is malicious software that:

The principle of least privilege in security states that a subject should be granted:

A message authentication code (MAC) provides:

A man-in-the-middle attack involves an attacker who:

A brute-force attack on a cipher attempts to:

Salting a password before hashing is done to:

Two-factor authentication strengthens security by requiring:

The Diffie-Hellman protocol is primarily used for:

A cross-site scripting (XSS) attack injects malicious scripts into:

The RSA algorithm's security relies primarily on the difficulty of:

A phishing attack typically attempts to:

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an example of a:

SQL injection is a security vulnerability that exploits:

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack aims to:

Symmetric-key encryption is characterized by:

A digital signature primarily provides:

In public-key cryptography, a message encrypted with a recipient's public key can be decrypted using the:

A cryptographic hash function is designed to be:

Which type of cipher encrypts data one bit or byte at a time?