Question

Read the excerpt from The Code Book.

Answer 1

Answer:

An example

A hypothetical situation

A fact

Explanation:

• Hypothetical situation: This is a situation that is depicted based on imagination.

The author gave a hypothetical situation of Alice encrypting a message to bob using Bob's public key and Bob decrypting the message on his own end using his own private key.

• Example

The author cited an example that Alice cannot afford to encrypt a hundred messages one by one due to the long time it takes. This is to back up the point earlier stated that encrption and decyption take time for long. messages.

• Fact: This a point that is generally true

The point that encryption and decryption can take several minutes on a personal computer if the message is long is a fact