Cryptography: Using columnar cipher, find the plaintext and the key that generated this ciphertext: ykccjosaiawiekhriogrrlrni Keep in...

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Using columnar cipher, find the plaintext and the key thatgenerated this ciphertext: ykccjosaiawiekhriogrrlrni Keep in mindthat only letter j was used for padding. (Show your detailedwork)

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In Column cipher the plain text will be divided into multiple rows each having the length of the key If there is any row with length less than key size then it is padded with characters Then the key is alphabetically order and in that order the columns of plain text are    See Answer
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