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What will be the plain text corresponding to cipher text “EETPEG” if gronsfeld cipher is used with key “4321”?(a) ABACUS(b) ABROAD(c) ABRUPT(d) ABUSEDThe question was posed to me in a job interview.I'd like to ask this question from Cryptography topic in chapter Cryptography of Data Structures & Algorithms II

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The correct choice is (b) ABROAD

Best explanation: Encryption in gronsfeld cipher takes place by shifting the letters of the PLAIN TEXT by a NUMBER GIVEN by the numeric KEY. So by applying the reverse of this method, we get the deciphered text to be “ABROAD”.



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