You Have Just Secured a New Job with a New

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Multiple Choice

You have just secured a new job with a new firm that is very security conscious. You’ve been instructed to learn as much as possible about encryption to ensure the confidentiality of customer transactions as well as electronic communications about new research and development projects.
-As part of your research,you find that the longer the key,the longer it will take a devious competitor to crack the code.You also find that most encryption today uses a ____ key,and so you decide to use an encryption key of that size.

• A) 56-bit
• B) 64-bit
• C) 128-bit
• D) 256-bit

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