1. Cryptography
There are seven basic types of attack: cipher text-only, known-plaintext, chosen-plaintext, adaptive chosen-plaintext, chosen-cipher text, man-in-the-middle, and brute force. ... Chosen-plaintext attack is when the attacker can have a message encrypted with an unknown key. ... Adaptive chosen-plaintext is a modified attack of chosen-plaintext where the only difference is the hacker is able to choose limited new plaintexts in order to determine the unknown key. Chosen-cipher text is the result of an attacker who can decrypt and doesn't know the key. It is very similar to a chosen-plainte...
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