Read the excerpt from The Code Book.The Trojan horse, another software trick, involves Eve designing a program that appears to act like a genuine encryption product, but which actually betrays the user.

“Genuine” describes the kind of encryption product the program appears to be, so it modifies the noun “product.” A word that describes a noun is an adjective; therefore, “genuine” is an adjective.

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