Scenario: Your company has many encrypted telecommunications links for their world-wide operations.

Vendor: ECCouncil
Product: 712-50
Update on: Dec 16, 2025
Questions: 494

ECCouncil 712-50 Question Answer

Scenario: Your company has many encrypted telecommunications links for their world-wide operations. Physically distributing symmetric keys to all locations has proven to be administratively burdensome, but symmetric keys are preferred to other alternatives.

Symmetric encryption in general is preferable to asymmetric encryption when:

The number of unique communication links is large

The volume of data being transmitted is small

The speed of the encryption / deciphering process is essential

The distance to the end node is farthest away