A security engineer is tasked with encrypting corporate email. Which of the following technologies
provide the MOST complete protection? (Select TWO)
A.
PGP/GPG
B.
S/MIME
C.
IPSEC
D.
Secure POP3
E.
IMAP
F.
HMAC
Which of the following technologies provide the MOST complete protection?
A security engineer is tasked with encrypting corporate email. Which of the following technologies
provide the MOST complete protection? (Select TWO)
Ummmmm, incorrect. The answers are A. PGP and B. SMIME
I agree with you.
Well I’m not sure. I think we all can agree that SMIME is right but HMAC is for Hash-based message authentication code. It’s a hash that’s combined with a secret key and applied to an mail message. The purpose is for data integrity and authenticity. That applies to AAA so I think the answer is right. PGP/GPG seems to be a good answer too but I thing HMAC being dedicated to email would be a better choice.
I have to go with A and B because we need to encrypt email. HMAC does not encrypt.
bobh61, you need to look more carefully at the question. It is asking about encryption, and wants to know what will provide the most complete (encryption) protection. PGP will encrypt the messages, and s/mime will encrypt attachments. HMAC does not encrypt at all.
It’s yet another trick question, but the answers have to be PGP and S/MIME.
Agree with Brian, Dugan, TT, and CaptCaveman. Just google email and HMAC and you get no results meaning no one uses HMAC with email haha!
Comptia apparently does, on a daily basis. That’s how their test questions ended up here… 😀