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What you're suggesting is known as a known-plaintext attack. All modern and properly implemented cryptosystems are designed to be highly resistant to it.

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Thank you. And I guess those protections apply even at the volumes of data subject to these ransomware attacks?

Yes. Encryption produces a functionally random stream of encrypted data no matter what your input is.

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