CHAPTER 3

MONOALPHABETIC SUBSTITUTION

THIS CHAPTER studies monoalphabetic encipherment. How ciphertext may be searched for a fragment of text (cribbing) and the results used to recover the plaintext and key will be explained. Problems to test your skills follow the text.

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