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Your manager requires you to setup a VPN to a new business partner site. The administrator from the partner site gives you his VPN settings and you notice that he setup AES 128 for IKE phase 1 and…
The correct answer is D. Only 128 bit keys are used for phase 1 keys which are protecting phase 2, so the longer key. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
Your manager requires you to setup a VPN to a new business partner site. The administrator from the partner site gives you his VPN settings and you notice that he setup AES 128 for IKE phase 1 and AES 256 for IKE phase 2. Why is this a problematic setup?
Options
- AAll is fine as the longest key length has been chosen for encrypting the data and a shorter key
- BAll is fine and can be used as is.
- CThe two algorithms do not have the same key length and so don't work together. You will get the
- DOnly 128 bit keys are used for phase 1 keys which are protecting phase 2, so the longer key
How the community answered
(53 responses)- A13% (7)
- B4% (2)
- C8% (4)
- D75% (40)
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