The primary purpose for using one-way encryption of user passwords within a system is which of
the following?
A.
It prevents an unauthorized person from trying multiple passwords in one logon attempt.
B.
It prevents an unauthorized person from reading or modifying the password list.
C.
It minimizes the amount of storage required for user passwords.
D.
It minimizes the amount of processing time used for encrypting passwords.
Explanation:
This kind of encryption flavor increases security for passwords, if you use a one way
encryption algorithm, you know that the encryption is not reversible, you cannot get the original
value that you provided as a password from the resulting hash with any key or algorithm. This
increase security in the way that when a person see the password list, it will only see the hash
values and cannot read the original password or modify them without getting corruption.