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Cryptanalysis, an Uncommon card
Cryptanalysis refers to the process of analyzing information systems in order to understand hidden aspects of the systems.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 54,000
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Cryptanalysis is used to breach cryptographic security systems and gain access to the contents of encrypted messages, even if the cryptographic key is unknown.
- In addition to mathematical analysis of cryptographic algorithms, cryptanalysis includes the study of side-channel attacks that do not target weaknesses in the cryptographic algorithms themselves, but instead exploit weaknesses in their implementation.
- Even though the goal has been the same, the methods and techniques of cryptanalysis have changed drastically through the history of cryptography, adapting to increasing cryptographic complexity, ranging from the pen-and-paper methods of the past, through machines like the British Bombes and Colossus computers at Bletchley Park in World War II, to the mathematically advanced computerized schemes…
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cryptanalysis article was read about 54,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cryptanalysis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Szymon Pilecki, Szymon Dąbrowski, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
