Last night in IRC, Shell B made us all feel dumb by setting us a history pop quiz which everyone failed miserably. It was then my turn to make everyone feel dumb by setting a pop quiz based on Computer Science and Information Security. If you want to see how good you are, here it is:

1) Name the person who is generally accepted as the father of modern computing.

2) Name three things the above person is known for in computing.

3) If you have a very large list of integers (whole numbers), which two algorithms will sort them in the fastest time on average?

4) What does an HTTP Error Code 404 mean?

5) What main protocol does the Internet run on?

6) Packets on the Internet are usually carried over wires. What alternative method of transportation was suggested in RFC 1149?

7) What does the 'S' stand for in HTTPS?

8) What does WWW stand for?

9) After which number were Google named?

10) According to a 2001 study, how large is the "deep web", also known as the "invisible web" or the "darknet"?

11) In public key cryptography, which key is generally used to encrypt, the public key or the private key?

12) How many packets are exchanged in order to set up a TCP connection?

13) What seemingly impossible thing does Diffie Hellman key exchange allow you to do?

Answers:

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: Last night in IRC, Shell B made us all feel dumb by setting us a history pop quiz which everyone failed miserably. It was then my turn to make everyone feel dumb by setting a pop quiz based on Computer Science and Information Security. If you want to see how good you are, here it is:

1) Name the person who is generally accepted as the father of modern computing.

Alan Turing

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 2) Name three things the above person is known for in computing.

Cryptography, Wartime code breaker, Victim of predjudice.

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 3) If you have a very large list of integers (whole numbers), which two algorithms will sort them in the fastest time on average?

Binary Tree sort

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 4) What does an HTTP Error Code 404 mean?

HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server. In other words "can find your fucking page!"

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 5) What main protocol does the Internet run on?

TCP/IP protocol

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 6) Packets on the Internet are usually carried over wires. What alternative method of transportation was suggested in RFC 1149?

TCP/MC ?

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 7) What does the 'S' stand for in HTTPS?

with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) ?

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 8) What does WWW stand for?

World Wide Web?

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 9) After which number were Google named?

Googleplex?

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 10) According to a 2001 study, how large is the "deep web", also known as the "invisible web" or the "darknet"?

Wiki= Estimates based on extrapolations from a study done at University of California, Berkeley in the year 2001[3] , speculate that the deep Web consists of about 91,000 terabytes. More accurate estimates are available for the number of resources in the deep Web: He et al. detected around 300,000 deep web sites in the entire Web in 2004,[4] and, according to Shestakov, around 14,000 deep web sites existed in the Russian part of the Web in 2006

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 11) In public key cryptography, which key is generally used to encrypt, the public key or the private key?

Both?

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 12) How many packets are exchanged in order to set up a TCP connection?

octets?

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 13) What seemingly impossible thing does Diffie Hellman key exchange allow you to do?

Wiki= establishing a shared secret over an unprotected communications channel?

Answers:

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Thanks Adrian!!

Done sans the answers

Not bothering with all of the others, but RFC 1149 I sometimes reference to other geeks to see if they know. It's funny if they look it up.

Here's my answers:



Oh well look at that! They seem to be correct What do I win?

When I saw RFC 1149, I thought "wasn't that the birds one?"

Yep.

(February 21, 2012 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: 1) Name the person who is generally accepted as the father of modern computing.

Bill Gates.

Quote:2) Name three things the above person is known for in computing.

Windows ME, Windows Vista, and being richer than God.

Quote:3) If you have a very large list of integers (whole numbers), which two algorithms will sort them in the fastest time on average?

Anything other than the way the Post Office sorts mail.

Quote:4) What does an HTTP Error Code 404 mean?

Your favorite porn site has been moved.

Quote:5) What main protocol does the Internet run on?

Porn distribution and Nigerian scams.

Quote:6) Packets on the Internet are usually carried over wires. What alternative method of transportation was suggested in RFC 1149?

Mules.

Quote:7) What does the 'S' stand for in HTTPS?

"Sex," as in "porn."

Quote:8) What does WWW stand for?

We Want Women (porn)

Quote:9) After which number were Google named?

1 with 100 zeros after it, which is approximately how many porn sites are on the internet.

Quote:10) According to a 2001 study, how large is the "deep web", also known as the "invisible web" or the "darknet"?

I don't know, but I'm betting that a large percentage of it will be made up of porn.

Quote:11) In public key cryptography, which key is generally used to encrypt, the public key or the private key?

The key under the mat.

Quote:12) How many packets are exchanged in order to set up a TCP connection?

Who cares, as long as I get to see porn.

Quote:13) What seemingly impossible thing does Diffie Hellman key exchange allow you to do?

View even more porn.