Sentences with phrase «possible plaintexts»

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Of course, for most encrypted messages, there are way more than three possible corresponding plaintexts.

To get a sense of how the technique works, imagine an encryption scheme that takes only three possible inputs, or plaintexts — «A,» «B,» and «C» — and produces only three possible outputs, or ciphertexts.

Even a plaintext as simple as a nine - digit number has a billion possible values, so the probabilities corresponding to an encoded Social Security number would describe a point in a billion - dimensional space.