"Decrypting an encrypted document" An employee of your company has left the organization on poor terms.  Before they left they encrypted all of their important documents. This employee did not leave a decryption key and has not responded to be contacted.  You have been asked by your manager to try and retrieve the data by using all means possible. Using what was learned this week how would you go about trying to retrieve the data?

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"Decrypting an encrypted document" An employee of your company has left the organization on poor terms.  Before they left they encrypted all of their important documents. This employee did not leave a decryption key and has not responded to be contacted.  You have been asked by your manager to try and retrieve the data by using all means possible. Using what was learned this week how would you go about trying to retrieve the data?

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