EC-Council
712-50 · Question #227
712-50 Question #227: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation
The correct answer is C. The speed of the encryption / deciphering process is essential. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
Scenario: Your company has many encrypted telecommunications links for their world-wide operations. Physically distributing symmetric keys to all locations has proven to be administratively burdensome, but symmetric keys are preferred to other alternatives. Symmetric encryption in general is preferable to asymmetric encryption when:
Options
- AThe number of unique communication links is large
- BThe volume of data being transmitted is small
- CThe speed of the encryption / deciphering process is essential
- DThe distance to the end node is farthest away
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