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Using Strategies and Word Patterns: The Code Book

Question 3 of 10 • **MFISD ENGLISH 1 B 22-23 CR

One of the author’s purposes in The Code Book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. Which line best demonstrates this purpose?

Answer
A
a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding Alice's private key
B
mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques
C
a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . . in a computer's display unit
D
if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . . enormous speed
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