Read the excerpt from The Code Book.

A theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding Alice's private key. Alice's private key consists of p and q, and these are found by factoring the public key, N. The standard approach is to check each prime number one at a time to see if it divides into N, but we know that this takes an unreasonable amount of time.

Which statement is best supported by this excerpt?

The author uses a narrative style to explain encryption.

The author includes several historical narratives.

The author adds many interesting descriptive details.

The author writes with great scientific detail.

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Kaylee Mcclain

20 November, 10:56

Read the excerpt from The Code Book.

A theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding Alice's private key. Alice's private key consists of p and q, and these are found by factoring the public key, N. The standard approach is to check each prime number one at a time to see if it divides into N, but we know that this takes an unreasonable amount of time.

Which statement is best supported by this excerpt?

The author uses a narrative style to explain encryption.

The author includes several historical narratives.

The author adds many interesting descriptive details.

The author writes with great scientific detail.

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Tiana Wang · Answer 1

"The Code Book" is actually a book that was written by Simon Singh, and based on the given excerpt above taken from this book, the statement that shows the best support of this excerpt is this: "The author writes with great scientific detail." The answer would be the last option.