discussion 2986

Task 1

Discussion

During this time when the Internet provides essential communication between literally billions of people and is used as a tool for commerce, social interaction, and the exchange of an increasing amount of personal information, security has become a tremendously important issue for every user to deal with.

There are many aspects to security and many applications, ranging from secure commerce and payments to private communications and protecting health care information. One essential aspect for secure communications is that of cryptography. But it is important to note that while cryptography is necessary for secure communications, it is not by itself sufficient.

In your initial discussion post, please describe the hashing security mechanism and its relationship to the encryption mechanism. You are to post directly to the thread. Any discussion posted in an attachment will be disregarded.

Your initial post is due by 11:59 PM Wednesday 11/13/19 and be a minimum of 1000 words.

Respond substantively to at least three other students’ posts. Please discuss how these mechanisms work to provide password security in today’s organizations when responding to the posts of your peers.

Respond substantively to at least two other students’ posts. In your response posts, please state why you agree (or not) with your peers. Consider other deployment models (including combined models) that might be more appropriate for that type of business.

Your responses are due by 11:59 PM Sunday 11/17/19 and be a minimum of 350 words each. Discussions threads will close on Sunday, 11:59 pm Eastern Time (EST)in the week they are assigned.

*please remember to include at least three credible scholarly references with your initial post and two credible scholarly references with your response posts!

Note your answer must be 1000 words: Each response should be 300 words. I will post you students discussions. you need to respond.