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What does ciphertext mean?

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  1. Encoded text, text that is unreadable.
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The process of disguising ordinary text or plaintext is called encryption, and encrypted data is called ciphertext.
The ciphertext produced by a weak encryption algorithm looks as good as ciphertext produced by a strong encryption algorithm.
Authenticity of the ciphertext can be established by decrypting it with your public key.
The symmetric encryption key is then encrypted with the public RSA key, and the resulting ciphertext is stored as metadata for the file.
This is called ciphertext and requires a ciphertext decoder to uncode it and return it back to a readable format.
The same would be true if digraph or trigraph frequencies were plotted for a sufficiently long ciphertext.

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