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Suppose Alice and Bob have RSA public keys in a file on a server. They communicate...

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Suppose Alice and Bob have RSA public keys in a file on aserver. They communicate regularly, using authenticated,confidential message. Eve wants to read the messages but is unableto crack the RSA private keys of Alice and Bob. However, she isable to break into the server and alter the file containing Alice’sand Bob’s public keys.

(1) How should Eve alter the file to so that she can readconfidential messages sent between Alice and Bob, and forgemessages from either?

(2) How might Alice and/or Bob detect Eve’s subversion of thepublic keys?

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Answer for question 1 Eve can replace their public keys by your own therefore Bob and Alice will encrypt messages using your public key and eve will be able to decrypt their messages    See Answer
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