____ Was Developed by IBM and the National Security Agency

question 22

Multiple Choice

____ was developed by IBM and the National Security Agency in cooperation with the National Bureau of Standards as an encryption technique using a secret key between the communicating stations.

• A) DES
• B) SSL
• C) IPSec
• D) SSTP

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