Sunday, November 22, 2009

Coffee Bean 14 : Silverman Socks Interview

Few semesters pass by... Its time for internship... Leo starts preparing for the interview. The day before the interview ..Leo sits in his room alone ..
Next day is the interview...Leo gets shortlisted.. Leo enters the irritating room where a so called geeky looking person gives a stern look towards Leo...
The interviewer is Cafeinnathan, senior dev manager Silverman Socks..(silverman socks is a company that develops security systems and is an expert in cryptographic solutions)he has a dabba laptop where he was playing farm ville... :)
Cafeinnaathan starts the first q...
1) What is security ???? (he gives a stern look as if he has asked a very difficult q)
leo answers "When boy goes behind girl...it is security"
Cafeinnathan.."I will not tell if the ans is correct or not...haha..Let me the shoot the next q"
2) What is man in the middle attack???
Leo "When boy goes behind girl..another man comes in middle, boy attacking man..it is man in the middle attack.....
Cafe "i see ..hmmmm"
3) What is message digest ???
Leo " When boy tells girl message.."I love you " girl unable to digest message .afterwards digest...it is message digest..."
Cafe ..." OK ok...let me make it difficult for you"
4) Then What is message digest 5 ??? This time..i dont want oral answers..plz write a psuedo code or algo...Keep writing ..i will come back in a min..."
Cafe goes out of the room with his mobile...to put kadalai .

Leo writes.. ..

For i = 0 to 5
Loop through
Boy tells girl message
if(girl unable to digest )
Continue
Else
break
Loop

Leo submits his paper... cafe comes in after kadalai... Cafe.."WHat did i ask you??? Aaaaah ok..i got it... u see i am very good at eye compilation of algos...??
By the way what is this algo ...???Can you please explain me sir.."

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