Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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You are given a string that was encoded by a Caesar cipher with an unknown distance value. The text can contain any of the printable ASCII characters. Suggest
an algorithm for cracking this code.
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Transcribed Image Text:You are given a string that was encoded by a Caesar cipher with an unknown distance value. The text can contain any of the printable ASCII characters. Suggest an algorithm for cracking this code.
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Printable ASCII characters range from 32 (decimal value) to 126 (if we consider spaces,
otherwise from 33 to 126).
In caeser cipher, when encrypting each ASCII character is shifted by an integer
value. When decrypting, each character is again shifted by the integer to get the 
original character. For example, if key is 2 then 'a' will be shifted to 'c' while encrypting 
and for decryption 'c' will be shifted down to 'a'.
So maximum value for key can be 94.
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