Question: 1 . Suppose a person uses the Caesar cipher to encrypt a plaintext message. The ciphertext is EVIRE, and the shift could be any value

1. Suppose a person uses the Caesar cipher to encrypt a plaintext message. The ciphertext is EVIRE, and the shift could be any value from 0 to 25. Can you determine the exact plaintext?
2. Suppose we use affine encryption with (9 x +2) mod 26. The ciphertext is UCR. What is the plaintext?
3. Suppose we use affine encryption where letter i is encrypted as (ai+b) mod 26, where b is chosen at random from {0,1,...,25} and a is chosen at random from all numbers a such that gcd(a,26)=1. We denote the cipher letter for plaintext letter i as \pi (i). Then we encrypt the message again using affine encryption with letter \pi (i) encrypted by
(c \pi (i)+ d) mod 26, with c and d chosen similarly to a and b. Is this method more secure than using a single affine encryption?

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