A system security engineer is evaluation methods to store user passwords in an information system, so what may be the best method to store user passwords and meeting the confidentiality security objective? A. Password-protected fileB. File restricted to one individualC. One-way encrypted fileD. Two-way encrypted file

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Janet Shannon

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11 May, 21:35

A system security engineer is evaluation methods to store user passwords in an information system, so what may be the best method to store user passwords and meeting the confidentiality security objective? A. Password-protected fileB. File restricted to one individualC. One-way encrypted fileD. Two-way encrypted file

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C. One-way encrypted file

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One-way encryption or one-way hash function is designed in a manner that it is hard to reverse the process, that is, to find a string that hashes to a given value. A good hash function makes it hard to find two strings that would produce the same hash value.