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Choose the weakest cipher from the following?(a) Vigenere cipher(b) Autokey cipher(c) Affine cipher(d) Hill cipherThe question was asked during an interview for a job.This key question is from Cryptography in portion Cryptography of Data Structures & Algorithms II

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Correct answer is (c) AFFINE cipher

The EXPLANATION is: Affine cipher is the weakest cipher out of the GIVEN options as it is a mono alphabetic cipher and other options are poly alphabetic ciphers. So it is QUITE vulnerable to frequency analysis.



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