The majority of attackers do not focus much on crypto-type attacks, as it is time consuming and requires significant computing power to crack the cipher text to extract meaningful information. But in some cases, the logic of the cryptography implemented can be understood easily.
In this section, we will explore bit-flipping attacks, which use Cipher Block Chain (CBC) to encrypt the given plaintext. In CBC, before you encrypt a block, the plaintext will be XOR'ed with the encrypted output of the previous block by creating a logical chain of blocks, as shown in the following screenshot:
In a nutshell, XOR compares two values, ...
