The Process of Obtaining the Plaintext Message from a Ciphertext

question 99

Short Answer

The process of obtaining the plaintext message from a ciphertext message without knowing the keys used to perform the encryption is called ___________.

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Definitions:

Index Fund

A type of mutual fund or exchange-traded fund designed to replicate the performance of a specific market index by holding the same investments as the index.

Market Risk Premium

The extra yield an investor anticipates by keeping a risky market portfolio over risk-free securities.

Beta

An indicator of how much the risk or instability of a security or portfolio deviates from the broader market.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure of the dispersion of a set of data points from their mean, widely used in finance to quantify the variability of returns.