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How would one crack a weak but unknown encryption protocol?

I was reading this interesting question: Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? It shows a weak home-brew algorithm developed by "Dave", and the answers discuss ...
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How effective have statistical methods been at breaking encryption?

If we look at how statistical engines run on-line translators, and how they are built, we see that they look at a new language and run a statistical model over it searching for what's probably the ...