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QuizMultiple Choice

Writing a Compare-and-Contrast Essay about Presentation of Ideas

Question 1 • 2026-2027 (Teacher: Zimpfer) - NY - English Language Arts 9

Review the paragraph from The Code Book.Ordinarily, if Alice wants to use RSA to encrypt a message to Bob, she looks up his public key and then applies RSA's one-way function to the message. Conversely, Bob decrypts the ciphertext by using his private key to reverse RSA's one-way function. Both processes require considerable mathematical manipulation, so encryption and decryption can, if the message is long, take several minutes on a personal computer.

Answer
A
ordinarily
B
conversely
C
manipulation
D
encryption

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