A symmetric encryption scheme has five ingredients: plaintext, ...

[burchfield96]

A symmetric encryption scheme has five ingredients: plaintext, encryption algorithm, ciphertext, decryption algorithm and _________.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

A ________ is a key used between entities for the purpose of distributing session keys.
 
  A. permanent key B. session key
   C. distribution key D. all of the above

[Danny Ewald]

Answer to Question 1

secret key

Answer to Question 2

A

[burchfield96]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[meganmoser117]

Excellent