Reconstruction and break of a 1809 homophonic cipher letter to Marmont, with scripts and a solution pack. Old wars needed homework.
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Homophonic cipher from a war letter sounds like a fun frequency-analysis problem, or mostly just a lot of manual reconstruction?
> fun frequency-analysis problem
not really, homophonic ciphers are there to annoy frequency charts first and make you do manuscript work second. the fun part is mostly counting symbols and realizing the sender did not care about your notebook.