The Lightweight ______________________________Protocol (LDAP) is a popular protocol for providing directory services (such as phone books, addresses, and user accounts)

(Be sure to answer all parts of the question.) As reported in the Forbes, Mars Inc. recently announced that it was buying full control of Kellogg’s snack spinoff Kellanova, for $36 billion. The transaction includes all of Kellanova’s brands, assets and operations, including family favorites such as Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, Rice Krispies Treats, NutriGrain and RxBar. Mars owns many brands in complementary categories, including Snickers, M&M’s, Twix, Dove and Extra, along with some crossover in snack and breakfast bars, such as KIND and Nature’s Bakery. The combination would make Mars-Kellanova among the top 5 packaged food and beverage conglomerates in the world, significantly larger than rivals Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Campbell’s and General Mills and trailing only Unilever, Nestle and Pepsico. Source: Forbes Based on class materials, lectures, and discussions, a. Which area of a SWOT analysis do you think Mars is addressing with this investment? S, W, O, or T? Be specific. State the letter and what the letter stands for. b. Explain your answer.

NIS The___________________________ Service (NIS) was originally created by Sun Microsystems to propagate information such as user accounts, host configuration, and other types of system information across many UNIX system.

Which real-world encryption scheme was successfully attacked using specific known IV vectors, revealing significant vulnerabilities?

FTP operates in a client/server model. An FTP server daemon listens for incoming requests (on TCP port 21) from FTP clients. 

Just as usermod is used to modify user settings and useradd is used to create users, __________ is used to remove users. 

What was a primary consideration in the design of MD4 that also influenced the design of MD5?

In a chosen ciphertext attack, what capability does the adversary have?

What is the primary purpose of the Merkle-Damgård design paradigm in the context of constructing cryptographic hash functions? 

In a Merkle-Damgard design paradigm, a compression function        and updates the internal state of the hash function.