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Cryptanalysis: Cryptanalytic attacks rely on the nature of the algorithm plus perhaps some knowledge of
the general characteristics of the plaintext or even some samples plaintext-cipher text pairs. This type of
attack exploits the characteristics of the algorithm to attempt to deduce a specific plaintext or to deduce the
key being used. If the attack succeeds in deducing the key, the effect is catastrophic: All future and past
messages encrypted with the key are compromised.
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Brute-force attack: The attacker tries every possible key on a piece of cipher text until an intelligible
translation into plaintext is obtained. On average, half of all possible keys must be tried to achieve success.
The definition of an unconditionally secure cryptosystem states that the cryptosystem cannot be broken
even with infinitely computational ressources and time. However, since most books define the
keyspace K to be finite, then with infinite time any computational device can perform an
exhaustive
keysearch.
Why are perfect secrecy cryptosystems unconditionally secure? I mean, how can the one-time pad with a
small keyspace be considered to be unconditionally secure (take
Are unconditionally
The Caesar cipher involves replacing each letter of the alphabet with the letter standing three
places down the alphabet .The alphabet is wrapped around, so that the letter following Z is A.
C = E (p) = (p + 3) mod (26)
The general Caesar cipher algorithm is
C = E (p) = (p + k) mod (26)
where k takes the value in the range 1 to 25
The decryption algorithm is
p = D(C) = (C - k) mod (26)