Question: Tasks: Develop a strategy to decrypt messages encrypted with a many - time pad. More specifically, assume Eva has collected the 1 0 ciphertexts and

Tasks: Develop a strategy to decrypt messages encrypted with a many-time pad. More specifically, assume Eva has collected the 10 ciphertexts and she knew they are generated by the same key. In addition, all the plaintexts are in English. Space, comma, period, and question mark are being used in the plaintext, but no other special characters are allowed. Eva wants to decrypt the last message (target message).
Collected ciphertexts:
1)
71fe1ace4389087266117cd7c98c4182851b3acff3b086e3f83f94d6eb05c4ba85d8e1fa14f11d1c3b568ff6cff5c09c5d67ef5c9c71b7eeb3d45a5154ab17b83e071ce9d8988adb4afedf46a840
2)
71fe1ace559a1e7266117cd7ce8745d7be2e74c3f0f68eeef57e8884e607debf81dfa0f012f95819681ae7f29fe4839b5175ef5e8760bef0b9d44b504eba12b22f5404f89dd085d550a48865a14f9b15a94dabe609ca2df2cccf210cefdb1af5389719795e1f0179cb77c5c456954d88f3
3)
72fe069c51c81a20775928c7879d4fd2a93c3acff3f69fe5fe2e9493a303d9ea98c4e5b60ae40a146058e7c787fbd09a1474e25dc865b5e6af865d4a40a61bfd384e06e0cfc1ccd356ff8853ac438905fa5fe3fd41cb3bbc8ac9
4)
67e543885b9a5b2267177084cf8453ccb8633ad7fdb39de5b13f8a93a304d6bf8bc4f4ef5def110b6f56a3e186e2c68c1470ef5c9c2ffbd6a291571e40ba1afd3b4b1fe0c4cbccc15df5dc07b043da01fa6ae4fd158f37b3c0cd
5)
71fe029a148c1236320d7192878a59cfbc3a6ec5e7f68befb13196d6ea1ec4ea81d9e3fe50ea0f196d02a2f7cfe2c29c5577e35d8630baf6ea80465b01aa1abc394f57a1f4ccccda59ff8846e44b8805bb5cabe608c231f2dec8364ae7d90ab4358c5c3a421b06
6)
6ef914ce5989152b321a769ad79c42c7be6f6ad2fab19de1fc339d84f04ad3a589dfa0ff09ab0c196f13e7e780b4c097556ded57c871fbeea393464a01aa0ab1381848cfd2d6898918efc046b00b8940bb08e3f313cb23b3dfd8645cfcd80ff82489
7)
71fe1ace4389087266117cd7c4865bd2b93b7fd2b5a58ce9f4308c9ff01e97ab82cbf2ef5dfc101d6a56b3fb8ab4d08b4167ef5c9c30b8f0ab97455b45e81efd364605e49ddb83df48eedc42b60c900fb14db4b229ca74b6c4d96442e1c34df8288f5c3a450a527ecc7c82865b8e
8)
71fe029a148c1437615978d7c58854dbec2c75cde5a39be5e37e9b97ef0697a285dfa0f01cff101d764983f29bf5
9)
71fe1ace50875b31730d6ad7cb8640c7ec3c73d4e1bf81e7b13796d6e518d8a4988ceff05dff101d2415a8fe9fe1d79a4623eb5e8430bfe3b3d442514faf40fd18420be0c8cb89924cf3cd5ee448950efd5cabe500c120f2d9d26440ebc34de029811977430b01748276d79012955cc6a65aebb9054becda5c9278

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