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Description of Solution Method

This was simply solved with pen and paper.

Even if frequency analysis is honored as the ultimate way of solving this kind of cipher, it was not needed for solving this one.

Out of naivety maybe, it was assumed that the plaintext language was English. Since the word separations were present in the cryptotext, some initial guesses of possible words was all that was needed.



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