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Chosen ciphertext attack

A chosen ciphertext attack is an attack[?] on a cryptosystem[?] in which the cryptanalyst chooses ciphertext and causes it to be decrypted with an unknown key.

For block ciphers, a chosen ciphertext attack is no better than a chosen plaintext attack and harder to mount in practice. For a self-synchronizing stream cipher, a chosen ciphertext attack can be useful as the key used to encipher each byte depends on the previous ciphertext. It is possible to use a chosen ciphertext attack to get an arbitrary message signed with RSA, if messages are signed without hashing.



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