google Imagine you want to search through Google to find a particular page. You want to do it in a second. And you're going to just do it the brute force way, assuming you could even reach all of those pages in that time.

假设你想通过,搜索一个特定的网页,你想在1秒内得到结果,然后你就只管去做了,认为能在1秒内遍历遍所有的网页。

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You can brute force it and unfortunately, the so-called Caesar cipher is not very secure because if you assume, for our purposes in English alphabet with 26 characters, say all lowercase for all uppercase, my God, you only have to try like 24, 25, 26 possible rotations until you can figure out what his secret message is.

你可以强行解密但是不幸地是，所谓的凯撒密码不是很安全的,因为如果假设，对于我们的26个字符的字母表,指明所有的小写为大写，我的天，你只要试24，25次，26次就可以解答出,密文的内容。

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