a) Moses, a Managing Director at ABC Sales Expert, does not have PGP/RSA installed on his private e- mail client, however he has a public/private key pair which he uses when communicating over his corporate mail client. He wants to send a sensitive message to Mary, his colleague, as he often does, however he currently cannot use the corporate client. He considers two options:
1) To sends this one e-mail unencrypted.
2) To use an online encryption/decryption service he found at https://sela.io/pgp where he can submit the message and Mary's public key and receive a cipher text which he will then send to Mary. Mary will decrypt the cipher text by uploading it together with her private key to the sam site.
Which option poses the greater security risk? Explain your answer.
b) Explain the difference between encryption and hashing
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