How does a cryptanalytic attack typically work?
A) It uses brute force to decrypt a message.
B) It uses a public key to determine information about the private key.
C) It exploits weak statistical trends between the key and the ciphertext to gain knowledge about the key.
D) It overloads the receiver so that legitimate messages cannot be received.

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Cryptanalytic attacks often exploit weaknesses in the encryption algorithm, such as statistical trends, to deduce information about the key or plaintext without needing to try every possible key.

How Does a Cryptanalytic Attack Typically Work