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A type of monoalphabetic substitution cipher, wherein each letter in an alphabet is mapped to its numeric equivalent, encrypted using a simple function `(ax + b) mod m`.

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Have affine ciphers actually been used in practice?

I have been been studying some basic ciphers, and learnt about the affine cipher where the encryption function is given by $ax+b \pmod{26}$ for an alphabet with 26 characters. This is a very insecure …
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