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What one time pad does if used correctly?

If used properly, the one-time pad is an unbreakable encryption system. To implement it, two parties agree on an invertible transformation on messages and a random key (such as a random number or sequence of numbers). The random key is then used to encrypt and decrypt the message, and if it is only used once, will leave no meaningful pattern in the ciphertext. Thus malicious third parties that intercept the ciphertext will be unable to derive the original message from it. The random key is the one-time pad because it can be used only once.


Is a process of converting plaintext into ciphertext to prevent unauthorized access?

The process of converting plaintext into ciphertext is called encryption.Once encrypted, only trusted recipients (those who have a copy of the public encryption key) can revert the process and recover the plain text.A related process is called authentication. It is used by the trusted recipient to ensure that the plain text was recovered correctly, since the wrong key will seemingly successfully decrypt the cypher into meaningless data.Encryption and authentication are almost always used together.


Could the ciphertext JOHN A1 be a valid ciphertext for the plaintext JOSE C1?

Of course it COULD be. Even a simple substitution cipher could be used to generate the given ciphertext from the given plaintext since they both have the same number of characters. Whether or not it actually IS a valid ciphertext depends on the algorithm used to encrypt it.


What is the meaning of encrypts?

The meaning of asymmetric encryption is that one key that is unique to a recipient is used only to decrypt data instead of a key being used to encrypt and decrypt that data.


Another word for code and is a way to transform text in order to conceal meaning?

Ciphertext is the other word for code or encoded text in information security. Ciphertext is the product when an algorithm is used to encode plain text.


Another word for code and is a way to transform a text in order to conceal meaning?

Ciphertext is the other word for code or encoded text in information security. Ciphertext is the product when an algorithm is used to encode plain text.


What is the difference between diffusion and confusion?

In diffusion, the statistical structure of the plaintext is dissipated into long-range statistics of the ciphertext. This is achieved by having each plaintext digit affect the value of many ciphertext digits, which is equivalent to saying that each ciphertext digit is affected by many plaintext digits. Confusion seeks to make the relationship between the statistics of the ciphertext and the value of the encryption key as complex as possible, again to thwart attempts to discover the key. Thus, even if the attacker can get some handle on the statistics of the ciphertext, the way in which the key was used to produce that ciphertext is so complex as to make it difficult to deduce the key. This is achieved by the use of a complex substitution algorithm.


What is used to decrypt a file in asymmetric encryption?

A public and private key


Can someone decrypt 23fcf32e3bbef559636642f9980252ab?

Someone can decrypt 23fcf32e3bbef559636642f9980252ab by knowing the key used to create it. Numbers like this are often associated with the checksum of a program or application which verifies its integrity.


What is Plaintext?

Plaintext is easily readable or, to be more accurate, decrypted/unencrypted text. This is opposed to ciphertext, which is encrypted. If you used an encryption algorithm to encode your message of "Hello, there" to "4hgu28fhdjf83291". The plaintext form would be: "Hello, there" The ciphertext form would be: "4hgu28fhdjf83291"


What was used to provide colossus with messages?

Colossus used telephone and teleprinter technology to decrypt messages


Where was Collossus used to decrypt messages during World War 2?

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