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Please answer the following questions regarding the following cipher text: a. What type of encryption is used? b. What is the key? c. What is

Please answer the following questions regarding the following cipher text:

a. What type of encryption is used?

b. What is the key?

c. What is the encrypted message?

Briefly justify your answers or provide work or code used to reach your answer.

Possible types of encryption are: Shift Cipher, Substitution Cipher, Vigenere Cipher, Permutation Cipher (Columnar Transposition), One-Time Pad.

The ciphertext:

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