: the enciphered form of a text or of its elements compare plaintext
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Recent Examples on the WebIn essence, bounded-distance decoding is the problem of recovering the original lattice point from this ciphertext. Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2021 This new method can enable applications to work on ciphertext and can remove the dependency of decryption. Tirthankar Dutta, Forbes, 15 June 2021 The converted letters would then be transcribed to derive the ciphertext. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2020 Rather than send voters home with a binder full of hexadecimal gibberish, the computer would print the ciphertext as something much smaller: a hash code, much like how a URL is shortened into a Bit.ly. Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020 At its most basic, encryption is the act of converting plaintext (like a credit card number) into unintelligible ciphertext using a very large, random number called a key. Andrew Grotto For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020 Anyone with the key can convert the ciphertext back to plaintext. Andrew Grotto For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020 The researchers explained: Given a pair of correct and faulty ciphertext on the same plaintext, this attack is able to recover the full 128-bit AES key with a computational complexity of only 232+256 encryptions on average. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2019 The vulnerabilities allow attackers to exfiltrate email plaintexts by embedding the previously obtained ciphertext into unviewable parts of an email and combining it with HTML coding. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018 See More