ISACA Exam Questions

To ensure authentication, confidentiality and integrity of a message, the sender should encrypt the

To ensure authentication, confidentiality and integrity of a message, the sender should
encrypt the hash of the message with the sender’s:

A.
public key and then encrypt the message with the receiver’s private key.

B.
private key and then encrypt the message with the receiver’s public key.

C.
public key and then encrypt the message with the receiver’s public key.

D.
private key and then encrypt the message with the receiver’s private key.

Explanation:

Obtaining the hash of the message ensures integrity; signing the hash of the message with the
sender’s private key ensures the authenticity of the origin, and encrypting the resulting message
with the receiver’s public key ensures confidentiality. The other choices are incorrect.