A communications engineer uses a ring structure to encode messages before transmission; which risk increases as the size of the ring (number of elements) becomes smaller?

💡 Explanation

Smaller rings have fewer elements, meaning there are fewer possible encoded messages. Therefore, the likelihood of a collision attack increases, because an attacker has fewer possible message encodings to check, rather than increased complexity or bandwidth issues which are more dependent on encoding algorithm.

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