Case 3 You Have Just Secured a New Job with a New

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Case 3 You have just secured a new job with a new firm that has a lot of industrial secrets to protect, or else risk loss of their competitive advantage. Your role is to learn as much as possible about encryption so you can help the firm keep their initiatives confidential until they are released to the market. If as part of your work you are able to devise a 40-bit key to protect information, how long would it take a personal computer to crack this key?

A) one week
B) two weeks
C) one month
D) one year