The diffie-hellman (dh) key agreement protocol is vulnerable to a man- in-the-middle attack. is it possible to secure the key agreement protocol against this attack by using each of the following primitives? if yes, sketch the method. if no, give reasons.

(a) public key digital signatures

b) hash functions

(c) message authentication codes (with a prior agreed key)

The file sales data.xlsx contains monthly sales amounts for 40 sales regions. write a sub that uses a for loop to color the interior of every other row (rows 3, 5, etc.) gray. color only the data area, columns a to m. (check the file colors in excel.xlsm to find a nice color of gray.)

Jaina and tomas are being considered as new tenants in an apartment. the landlord looks at their creditworthiness because he wants to be sure his new tenant pays the rent on time and in full. the table below summarizes the information that was on their applications. application information questions jaina tomas how many years have you had your job? 5 2 what is your monthly salary? $1,850 $2,500 how many credit cards do you have? 4 1 how much debt do you have? $13,000 $7,000 how many times were you late with payments on credit cards in the past year? 5 1 who will the landlord decide to be more creditworthy and why? tomas because the ratio of his debt to income is less. jaina because she has had her job longer, which makes her look more stable. jaina because she has more credit cards available to her. tomas because he makes more money per month.

Auser is given read permission to a file stored on an ntfs-formatted volume. the file is then copied to a folder on the same ntfs-formatted volume where the user has been given full control permission for that folder. when the user logs on to the computer holding the file and accesses its new location via a drive letter, what is the user's effective permission to the file? a. read b. full control c. no access d. modify e. none of the above