1. Consider a 16-block cipher. How many possible input blocks does this cipher have? How many possible mappings are there? If we view each mapping as a key, then how many possible keys does this...

1. Consider a 16-block cipher. How many possible input blocks does this cipher have? How many possible mappings are there? If we view each mapping as a key, then how many possible keys does this cipher have?

2. Suppose
N
people want to communicate with each of
N
- 1 other people using symmetric key encryption. All communication between any two people,
i
and
j, is visible to all other people in this group of
N, and no other person in this group should be able to decode their communication. How many keys are required in the system as a whole? Now suppose that public key encryption is used. How many keys are required in this case?