The Homophonic C ipher is a cipher where plaintext letters might be replaced by any of many different ciphertext letters. The number of symbols each letter is recouped recovered by is an element of the ke y; for exampl e, the letter 'C' can be repossessed retrieved by any of different symbols depending on frequency, wher eas the symbol letter 'Z' has is less freque nt cy and can be changed by fewer number of symbols. One of the way to of break ing this type of ciph er is to look at the letter's frequenc y.
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