onsider an 8-bit block cipher. How many possible input blocks does this cipher have?

The hacker group Desdeia tries to break our old weak cipher which we used for the communication with the Duchess of Ligovia. It's generally known that an actual breaking of the cipher needs the reviewing a huge amount of variants which probably lasts a couple of months. Additionally we know that the reviewing of different variants needs always the same server resource. Using our intelligence sources we tried to get some information about the actual progress of breaking, but we got only some fragments: • The hacker group Desdeia uses for breaking their powerful four-core server which resources are fully dedicated to breaking process. . The actual breaking process began exactly at noon, but we don't know, on which day. . By the noon of 2nd of April, already 648,467,673 variants were successfully reviewed. Exactly at this noon, when the breaking process was already lasted for 19 days, it was attempted to double the server speed. The doubling itself was failed, but instead of it there was…

Consider the affine cipher f(p) = 3p+4 (mod 26), where p is the plaintext representation of the character under consideration. For example the plaintext of the letter A is 0, B is 1, C is 2, ... Z is 25. Use this cipher to encrypt the letters I, N, G, R (changing the numbers back to letters at the end.

The definition of a Shift Cipher can be expressed as follows:Def. Let x, y, k ∈ Z26 with the encryption operation as ek(x) ≡ x + k mod 26 and thedecryption operation as dk(y) ≡ y - k mod 26.Given the provided letter encoding, what would be the encoding of the plaintext word ATTACKafter applying a shift cipher with a k=17?