monoalphabetic Definition
(of a substitution cipher) using a fixed substitution for each individual letter in the plaintext.
Using monoalphabetic: Examples
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The Caesar Cipher is an example of a monoalphabetic substitution cipher.
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Monoalphabetic substitution ciphers are easily broken by frequency analysis.
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Summary: monoalphabetic in Brief
The term 'monoalphabetic' [ˌmɒnəʊalfəˈbɛtɪk] refers to a type of substitution cipher where each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a fixed substitution. Examples include the Caesar Cipher, which is easily broken by frequency analysis.
