This repository was used for a graduate level course at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of this project is to perform a 2DES meet-in-the-middle attack given a ciphertext and corresponding plaintext. This is considered a known plaintext attack, which is an attack model where the attacker has access to both the plaintext and its encrypted version. This project demonstrates a known plaintext attack on the 2DES, or double DES, encryption scheme.
