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Plaintext/unencrypted password attack
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1. Server-side 2. Cross-site
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the attacker has access to pairs of known plaintexts and their corresponding ciphertexts. The goal is to guess the secret key (or a number of secret keys) or to develop an algorithm which would allow him to decrypt any further messages.
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