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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition
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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

by Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
548 pages
12h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Bit-flipping attack

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, ...

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