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A security architect is designing a system to satisfy user demand for reduced transaction time, increased security and message integrity, and improved cryptographic security. The resultant system will be used in an environment with a broad user base where many asynchronous transactions occur every minute and must be publicly verifiable.
Which of the following solutions BEST meets all of the architect's objectives?

  • A. An internal key infrastructure that allows users to digitally sign transaction logs
  • B. An agreement with an entropy-as-a-service provider to increase the amount of randomness in generated keys.
  • C. A publicly verified hashing algorithm that allows revalidation of message integrity at a future date.
  • D. An open distributed transaction ledger that requires proof of work to append entries.
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

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daanderud
2 years, 10 months ago
feels like it's talking about block chain?
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arawaco
3 years, 7 months ago
The answer could be A or D. Lets see: D. Based on https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/alternative-distributed-ledger-architectures/ Meet the following requeriments reduced transaction time, security, message integrity, cryptographic security but asynchronous. A. Based on moz-extension://382a19ac-8980-4165-98a9-b34625cd4d3d/https://www.jite.org/documents/Vol9/JITEv9IIPp061-077Murray804.pdf and this https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/database-security You can meet the following requeriments reduced transaction time, security, message integrity, cryptographic security and asynchronous. So, i vote A.
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D1960
3 years, 8 months ago
Why not: C. A publicly verified hashing algorithm that allows revalidation of message integrity at a future date ? Option A seems to only apply to transaction logs. The question is more concerned with message integrity than transaction logs. Increasing messages integrity is specifically mentioned in the question. Option C is the only option that addresses that.
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destro
3 years, 10 months ago
I'm going with A here as well. an internal key infrastructure is a short and pretty complete solution to the problem the question asks.
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D1960
3 years, 8 months ago
Option A seems to state that the internal key infrastructure will only be used for signing transaction logs. Certainly they will need a system to do more than that.
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D1960
3 years, 10 months ago
An agreement with an entropy-as-a-service provider to increase the amount of randomness in generated keys. - EaaS is typically used with IoT A publicly verified hashing algorithm that allows revalidation of message integrity at a future date. - does not address traffic time An open distributed transaction ledger that requires proof of work to append entries - does not address traffic time or cryptography An internal key infrastructure that allows users to digitally sign transaction logs - meets all the stated objectives
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Rafa0324
4 years ago
I think is A. Many other dumps have A as the answer, it does not mean that A is the answer and another dump has entropy as the answer. I did some research and I could not find the right answer.
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D1960
3 years, 9 months ago
Is this even a fair question? For example: "reduced transaction time." Reduce transaction time from what? What are they using now? Then it goes on: "increased security and message integrity, and improved cryptographic security." Again, from what? Nothing you do to increase security is going to reduced transaction time. Unless, maybe, you are using some really awful security system now, and replace it with something better. But with no mention of what is being used now, what are we to compare this to? Also, are just adding something new, or replacing something that is already existing?
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americaman80
3 years, 11 months ago
Good catch!!
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