The network administrator for a company is setting up a website with e-commerce capabilities.
Packet sniffing is a concern because credit card information will be sent electronically over the
Internet. Customers visiting the site will need to encrypt the data with HTTPS. Which type of
certificate is used to encrypt and decrypt the data?
A.
Asymmetric
B.
Confidential
C.
Symmetric
D.
Non-confidential
A
HTTPS uses asymmetric encryption to set up the symmetric encryption. Certificates will not be used to encrypt “the data” only for symmetric key exchange to secure a symmetrically encrypted channel.
This question is bad.
But yeah, A is probably the answer they wanted.