How Does Mallory Pass Encrypted Data Without Bob Detecting It?

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Mallory and Eve are being watched by Bob the Investigator. They must now try and pass messages to each other, with Bob detecting the passing of secret messages.

If Mallory wants to trick Bob the Investigator into thinking that he is sending plain text, then he can covert the cipher text into a plain text format. In the following Mallory converts the cipher…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.