Discussion
Encryption and decryption provide secrecy, or confidentiality, but not
Answer: B
Correct answer: Integrity
Encryption hides the content but does not protect it from alteration: an attacker who cannot read the ciphertext may still change bits in it, and the receiver would decrypt something different without knowing. Integrity therefore needs a hash or a MAC in addition to the encryption.
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