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18. Getting Started with Cryptanalysis

Marius Iulian Mihailescu¹   and Stefania Loredana Nita¹

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Bucharest, Romania

 

The third part of this book will focus on cryptanalysis and its methods. As stated in the first part, cryptanalysis is defined as being the discipline that studies the methods and ways of finding breaches within cryptographic algorithms and security systems. The most important goal is to obtain access to the real nature of the encrypted message or cryptographic key.

Cryptanalysis is a process conducted by professionals (ethical hackers, information security officers, etc.). ...