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Comment by FabHK

Isn't that a very simple substitution cipher (any clear text letter is substituted by two letters of cipher text, with a fixed one-to-one correspondence)? And aren't they all amenable to very simple cryptanalysis, at least if the encrypted text is long enough, by counting how often certain letters appear, and then trying to plug in reasonable guesses?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_cipher

parent FabHK 1 month ago

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