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# Mono-alphabetic substitution

**Mono-alphabetic substitution** is a simple substitution cipher where **each letter of the plaintext is substituted with a fixed corresponding letter** of the ciphertext, based on a single shared alphabet or a key.

It is considered to be easily broken due to the lack of complexity in the substitution process and the predictability of letter frequency patterns in the language used.