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Which of these attacks describes a known plaintext attack?

The session key is intercepted and used against a later encrypted session

The attacker has obtained a cipher text and plaintext for the past messages which they use to decipher new messages

An attacker intercepts messages between two parties on the network and modifies the original message

An attacker encrypting known plaintext with every possible key to decrypt the corresponding cipher text

Explanation

M2-T06-Cryptographic Attacks

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