Suppose you were able to capture a chunk of text (let us say…
Suppose you were able to capture a chunk of text (let us say 10,000 bytes long) that was enciphered. Before trying to break the encryption, you would first like to know what type of cipher is being used. For the following, tell me how you could determine if the following ciphers were used. That is, tell me what you think would hold (statistics or other things) that would indicate the below ciphers were used. a) Monoalphabetic cipher b) Vignere cipher without autokey c) A rotor machine using 5 rotors
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