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Crossword: Cryptanalysis Techniques

Across

1. The process of recovering passwords from data that has been stored or transmitted in an encrypted or hashed form.

2. A security feature that locks a user's account after a specified number of failed authentication attempts.

3. A type of encryption where the order of letters in the plaintext is rearranged

4. The study of analyzing and breaking encryption schemes

5. A type of encryption where each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a different letter or symbol

6. A precomputed table used in password cracking to reverse cryptographic hash functions and quickly determine the original password.

7. The encrypted form of a plaintext message

8. A technique used in cryptanalysis to analyze the frequency of letters or symbols in a ciphertext

9. A measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting unauthorized access.

10. A method used in cryptography to try all possible combinations until the correct one is found

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11. A type of attack where the cryptanalyst has access to both the plaintext and its corresponding ciphertext

12. A method of attempting to gain unauthorized access to a system by systematically attempting all possible combinations of words from a dictionary as passwords.


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